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Young people, emotional suspicion and the emergence of paediatric selfhood in Palestine
Author(s) -
Stryker Rachael
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12402
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , sadness , palestine , anger , impossibility , identity (music) , mental health , sociology , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , political science , psychotherapist , history , aesthetics , ancient history , philosophy , law
Abstract This paper explores young people's relationships to emotions and mental health care in Ramallah, Palestine. Palestinian young people—via public anger, sadness, or even joy—are often marked as emotionally other in familial, institutional and other public spaces as part of NGO‐driven constructions of emerging paediatric selfhood. In response, they reproduce and/or reframe notions of emotional suspicion that underwrite these marginalizing processes. Thinking along such axes as possibility and impossibility; mobility and immobility; and the local and international, they simultaneously integrate and resist representational subjection, which is an important part of understanding broader post‐Oslo Palestinian identity and community formation.