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Accepted Contribution

Gaza, genocidal violence and the politics of humanitarianism.  
Ruba Salih (University of Bologna)

Contribution short abstract

Anthropological scholarship has for a long time shed light on the critical and depoliticizing effects of humanitarianism in Palestine and elsewhere. Yet, today keeping the Palestinian body alive becomes a political act, an obstacle to the genocidal logic of elimination unfolding in Gaza.

Contribution long abstract

Anthropological scholarship has for a long time shed light on the critical and depoliticizing effects of humanitarianism in Palestine and elsewhere. Yet, today keeping the Palestinian body alive becomes a political act, an obstacle to the genocidal logic of elimination unfolding in Gaza.

Roundtable RT106
(Un)doing humanitarian ethics through critique: exploring anthropological contributions to humanitarian practice in light of recent events in Gaza [AHN and LAWNET]
  Session 1 Wednesday 24 July, 2024, -