Lena Meari

Lena Meari

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Post-Doc Fellow
Spring 2012

 
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Lena Meari is an assistant professor at the Social and Behavioral Science and the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology with a designated emphasis in feminist theory and research from the University of California at Davis. She had taught several courses including Anthropology of the Middle East at the University of California Davis as well as critical theories in Gender and Development, qualitative research methods and colonial structures and their resistance for graduate students in Gender and Development at Birzeit University.

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CARCERAL POLITICS IN PALESTINE & BEYOND: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison
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CARCERAL POLITICS IN PALESTINE & BEYOND: Gender, Vulnerability, Prison
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This panel explores the politics of systematic imprisonment and detention in Israel/Palestine, focusing on gendered experiences and thinking comparatively about prison-systems, bodies, and injustice elsewhere, including the U.S. 

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Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender Among Palestinians in Israel
History of the Present

Displaced at Home gathers a group of Palestinian women scholars who present unflinching critiques of the complexities and challenges inherent in the lives of this understudied but important population. The essays engage topics ranging from internal refugees and historical memory to women's sexuality and the resistant possibilities of hip-hop culture. Unique in the collection is sustained attention to gender concerns, which have tended to be subordinated to questions of nationalism, statehood, and citizenship.
The collection presents on-the-ground examples of the changing political, social, and economic conditions of Palestinians in Israel, and examines how global, national, and local concerns intersect and shape their daily lives.
Sponsored by the Center for Palestine Studies & the Anthropology Department at Columbia University.

RHODA KANAANEH, Anthropology Department, Columbia University
ISIS NUSAIR, Department of Women's Studies, Denison University
LENA MEARI, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

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