Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is 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 a Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, the Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London, and a visiting Professor  at  Princeton University. She is the  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); and Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press 2019). She has co-edited volumes such as 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).

Publications

• The Politics of Acquiring the Colonizer’s Language in the Colonial Academy
• Stench atmospheres: policing, affect, and colonial boomeranging in Palestine/Israel
• “More rifles than laptops”: Palestinian students’ experiences of social work education in times of genocide
• Five Pillars of Zionist Genocidal Apparatus: A Palestinian Problematization of Genocide Studies
• Al-Jonoub تحدِِّي الأشلاء والاقتدار باللََّم واللََّملمة
• Against Carceral Expansion: Academic Quicksand in Times of Genocide
• ‘Way Too White’: Navigating Our Colonial Legacies Through Critical Discussions on Positionality and Power Dynamics With Palestinian Feminist Scholars

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