Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian- a Palestinian Jerusalemite feminist whose scholarship on the settler colonial state’s brutality, unchilding, securitized and sacralized politics, state crime, law and society, and global feminist politics, challenges epistemic violence. She is the Global Chair in Law- Queen Mary University of London, Professor Extraordinarius- University of South Africa, and professor emeritus- the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.   Author of numerous books among them Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study” (Cambridge University Press, 2010;  Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear (Cambridge University Press 2015); “Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding” Cambridge University Press 2019);  co-edited volumes Engaged Students in Conflict Zones, Community-engaged Courses in Israel as a Vehicle for Change (Palgrave Macmillan Press 2019); When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism (Cambridge University Press 2021), and The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press 2023), and a co-edited volume entitled: Abolitionism, settler colonialism and state crime, 2024.

In conversation with Professor J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Princeton University.

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