Femicide and Colonization: Between the Politics of Exclusion and the Culture of Control

• NCJ Number: 245925
• Journal: Violence Against Women Volume: 19 Issue: 3 Dated: March 2013 Pages: 295-315
• Author(s): Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian; Suhad Daher-Nashif
• Date Published: March 2013
• Length: 21 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This article explores the murder of women and girls, which we name it Femicide, among the Palestinian community living in Israel.

Abstract

This article explores the murder of women and girls, which we name it Femicide, among the Palestinian community living in Israel. Specifically, it analyzes how the dialectic interrelationship between informal and formal legal-social systems constructs the murders of Palestinian women. The data revealed that femicide is a crime empowered by the wider context of colonization and the increasing spatial segregation of Palestinian communities. The study confirms the need to move beyond simplistic cultural explanations of femicide, and pay closer attention to the ways in which the structure, politics and economy of death function in colonized spaces and contexts. Abstract published by arrangement with Sage.