... movement, places gender and sexuality at the center of its transformative project. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are mine. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Activists, Lobbyists, and Suicide Bombers: Lessons from the Palestinian Women’s Movement Amal Amireh...

... and responding to martyrdom operations (a.k.a. suicide bombing), ensuring that these complementary and simultaneous hermeneutic tasks do not slither accidentally into the moral abyss of justifying “terror-ism.” I demonstrate how the film makes use of cinematic conventions (e.g., the thriller genre and camera...

... radicalism, while disabling new political formations that make the university a particular target of concern. . . . Our first report is particularly poignant.1 This is the death by suicide of Dalit doctoral student...

... allowed to speak or be made silent? © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 bodies gender revolution suicide patriarchy law legibility This paper developed as separate parts in different meetings and workshops. I am grateful to Lila Abu-Lughod and the participants at the May 2014...

..., 1991 at the age of twenty three in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Sivaramani lived and died in a place where the act of suicide is glorified and praised as the ultimate symbol of patriotism. Sivaramani, however, did not die by swallowing a cyanide capsule or leaping at a target with a bomb-fitted bodice...

... that Gregory: Palestine and the “War on Terror” 187 weekend, as the Jewish Sabbath was coming to an launch of two home-made missiles from Gaza, the end on the night of 1-2 December, two suicide IDF launched a massive air-and-ground operation bombs and a car bomb exploded in the heart of West...

... in the ist in Bangladesh; of sexual harassment in Egypt; Middle East and North Africa rely on cultural ex- of suicide in Morocco; of rural backwardness in planations rather than political or socioeconomic Jordan; of closed-­minded religiosity in Syria; of analysis to produce...

... needing special medical care that I was told could not be provided on the island. I also heard that Yara had lost a lot of weight. From time to time, she would lock herself in her room, cut her skin, and threaten to commit suicide, thus turning her body into a living archive of the dense atmosphere...

... and the Costumes of the People of India, 42n . 8. Yule and Burnell, Hobson-Jobson . 9. Rivett-Carnac, Report on the Operations of the Cotton Department . 10. Sainath, “Largest Wave of Suicides in History.” Sainath gives the figure of farmer suicides between 1997 and 2007 as 182,936...

..., the Indian. states the suicide rate total population being about 8 among women was highest in Gujarat. million. Kathis are one of the Out of the total number of suicides prominent sects of Rajput , and some among women in Gujarat, about 70% think...

... in their new lives, and resisted state her sister, her friends’ suicides/abductions, and her repatriation efforts. Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal on 40 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 24:1 (2004) the other hand, argue that the events of abduction ence...

... Colombo’s media the averted faces of once trusted friends mirrored depths of sadness in your eyes Our common base no longer gentle memories but harsh realizations of impenetrable politicians and suicidal militants of insensitive ideals and base prejudices of bombs raining over Jaffna...

... not succeed. It is On the next page, the mention of the suicide a very challenging attempt indeed, and I would of Hekmat in Paris is certainly no coincidence. argue that she mostly succeeds. The immediate intertextual reference to He...

... ucd obnsadgnbattles gun and bombings suicide h urgt rltra:Mse Women Moslem Proletariat: Surrogate The 2(93:22–49. (1993): 72 2...

... initial publication, it has been regularly taken up in a right-wing press fixated on French fears of Muslim immigration—especially from Algeria. Sensationalistic journalist Eric Zemmour's bestselling Le Suicide français (2014) lamented the national rot that had set in with the waning of French...

... and high costs of debt to small and marginal famers, tipping many of them into penury. The suicides of more than three hundred thousand farmers over the past decade in India are one index of the agrarian crisis. The most common response, scholars of agrarian crisis argue, is “distress migration...

... killed himself, followed Francis, 2008), 70. Reprinted from Theory and Event determination to bury her brother Polynices accord- by Antigone herself. Creon’s wife, Eurydice, also com- 9, no. 1 (2006). ing to the ritual prescriptions that divine law enjoins. mits suicide, leaving Creon desolated...

...- either help maintain or challenge the current tivities such as the suicide bomber, mercenary, dominant global order. Wars aim “at controlling martyr, child soldier, rape victim, and refugee. the population . . . and reproducing all aspects These new subjectivities...

..., suicide, violence and abuse were part worked as indentured laborers on the sugar plantations of the lives of many of the indentured women. Often, in the French colonies of Reunion, Guadeloupe, and women were bought and sold with the tacit approval of Martinique. Although about 60 percent...

... changes relate to the overall structural poverty. change that we, who are outside their situation, may With each story I read, my unease increased. With identlfy as necessary for liberation? each hunger pang, beating, assault, suicide, with each...