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Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons

Meari, Lena·2014·South Atlantic Quarterly
DOI 10.1215/00382876-2692182
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This article investigates Palestinian-Zionist colonial relations from the perspective of the interrogation encounter between Palestinian munadilin (strugglers) in prison and their interrogators from the Israeli security agency during the past forty years of Zionist settler colonization in Palestine. The interrogation site constitutes a condensation point for reading the colonial relations. Each interrogation encounter reflects a singular relation and simultaneously encodes the collective history of past, present, and future colonial relations. The interrogation encounter is a revealing ethnographic site for analyzing the dialectic of the colonial relations and how Palestinians have simultaneously carved out a space for a form of subjectivity and politics that breaks with the predicament of the colonial dialectic through the cultivation of sumud, or “steadfastness.” In the context of colonized Palestine, sumud has come to embody a whole range of significations, sensibilities, affections, attachments, aspirations, and practices. It is a form of subjectivity and politics that embodies the possibility of escaping hegemonic configurations of colonial liberal politics. To practice sumud in the interrogation means to refuse to confess in order to protect one’s comrades, political organization, and community, as well as the Palestinian revolution more broadly. However, sumud is not a definable practice. For there are as many ways to practice sumud as there are Palestinians-in-sumud;…

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Authors
Meari, L.
Corresponding author
Meari, Lena
ORCID
Meari, Lena
Venue
South Atlantic Quarterly
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2014-07-01
Volume
113
Issue
3
Pages
547-578
ISSN
  • 0038-2876 (ISSN-L)
  • 1527-8026
DOI
10.1215/00382876-2692182
OpenAlex
W2332587666
Cited by
131
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 29 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
FWCI
9.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • South Atlantic Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Cultural Studies and Colonialism
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
Keywords
sumud, steadfastness, Palestinian resistance, colonialism, interrogation, political prisoners, colonial settlement, subjectivity, Gilles Deleuze

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