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Childhood: A Universalist Perspective for How Israel is using Child Arrest and Detention to further its Colonial Settler Project
Author(s) -
ShalhoubKevorkian Nadera
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.1456
Subject(s) - colonialism , politics , biopower , narrative , situated , human rights , power (physics) , child abuse , sociology , geopolitics , state (computer science) , gender studies , documentation , criminology , law , poison control , political science , suicide prevention , medicine , literature , art , physics , environmental health , algorithm , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language
Drawing from reports and documentation published by Israeli and Palestinian human rights and children's rights organizations, and establishing the analyses from the voices and stories of Palestinian children suffering from politically motivated abuses, the present paper examines child abuse in settler colonial contexts. Through the analyses of the various voices, narratives, and reports, the paper examines the inscription of state power over children's bodies and lives, marking the connection between biopolitics and geopolitics, as well as the resultant suffering of children. The analyses of the collected data suggest that knowledge about child maltreatment and the violations of children's rights cannot be dislocated from the history, politics, and structure of settler colonialism. The paper concludes by arguing that living a childhood situated in spaces of exterminability, as the voices of the studied children reveal, should be defined as child abuse and maltreatment. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.