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- Country of residence: Palestine
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The
Palestinian researcher, Dr. Ashjan Ajour from Gaza wins the “International
Palestinian Book Award” for the year 2022 in the category of academic books.
Organized
by the Middle East Monitor, for her book, “Reclaiming Humanity in the Hunger
Strike Experience.”
I
wrote about the award:
The
researcher Ashjan Ajour wrote, immediately after winning the award for the
academic research category: “It is a great honor to win the Palestine Book
Award
2022,
considering that the real honor is for the prisoners who are engaged in the
experience of the battle of hunger strike, and who without their courage
What
was the book?
Researcher
Ashjan Ajour expressed, in a post on her Facebook page, her hope that academic
research would contribute to this
Documenting
the Palestinian struggle.
Speaking
of the book:
On
the other hand, researcher Dr. Ashjan Ajour said in a previous interview that
the book relied on 85 interviews to study this phenomenon with prisoners
Freedmen
who went on hunger strike, with their families and the lawyers who represented
them, as well as representatives of the captive movement
political
parties.
The
book places the strikes in the historical context of settler colonialism in
general and the captive movement in particular, especially the period
After
Oslo, according to Ajour.
Book
description:
The
book focuses on studying the interaction of prisoners with the looting and
dehumanization operations carried out by the colonialists in prisons
Occupation,
and how resisting the strike is a process of restoring the humanity that the
colonial project aims to confiscate.
The
study also argues that in resisting the mechanisms of dispossession, the hunger
strikers devised techniques of resistance and strategies to challenge the
machine.
colonialism,
to form their revolutionary selves. According to the researcher, the book seeks
to clarify the strikers' philosophy of arming the body
In
addition, it provides a detailed analytical account of the resistance process
and how to confront the colonial machine by turning the bodies of prisoners
into weapons.
The
book, which is divided into 14 chapters, also touches on the arming of the body
and the resistance techniques developed by the prisoners to resist the attacks.
Dispossession,
the use of the body in resistance, the formation of the revolutionary self in
experience, the steadfastness of prisoners, and the concept of victory and
sovereignty over
The
body, the relationship of the individual self to the collective, and the
negotiations that the writer considered a battle within the strike battle.
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