@article{1441749,
      recid = {1441749},
      author = {ʻAjūr, Ashjān,},
      title = {Reclaiming humanity in Palestinian hunger strikes :  revolutionary subjectivity and decolonizing the body /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {Rooted in feminist ethnography and decolonial feminist  theory, this book explores the subjectivity of Palestinian  hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, as shaped by  resistance. Ashjan Ajour examines how these prisoners use  their bodies in anti-colonial resistance; what determines  this mode of radical struggle; the meanings they ascribe to  their actions; and how they constitute their subjectivity  while undergoing extreme bodily pain and starvation. These  hunger strikes, which embody decolonisation and liberation  politics, frame the post-Oslo period in the wake of the  decline of the national struggle against  settler-colonialism and the fragmentation of the  Palestinian movement. Providing narrative and analytical  insights into embodied resistance and tracing the formation  of revolutionary subjectivity, the book sheds light on the  participants views of the hunger strike, as they move  beyond customary understandings of the political into the  realm of the spiritualisation of struggle. Drawing on  Foucaults conception of the technologies of the self,  Fanons writings on anti-colonial violence, and Badious  militant philosophy, Ajour problematises these concepts  from the vantage point of the Palestinian hunger strike.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1441749},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88199-3},
}