October 7th and the Discourse of Violence: The Israel/Gaza Conflict (80873)
Session Chair: Eric Williams
Saturday, 13 July 2024 13:45
Session: Session 3
Room: G10 (Ground)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
This paper draws on research that we have conducted over the past 6 years on the iMPACTS project based at McGill University. While the project has focused on gender-based violence in education and society, this paper explores how and in what ways the concept of violence has been orchestrated and deployed in the events surrounding the 2023 October 7th attack by Hamas on Israel, and Israel’s response to this attack in the Palestinian territory of Gaza. We will be interested in exploring and analysing the different ways in which the concept of violence has been construed and operationalised in mainstream and social/alternative media platforms. We will also be concerned with understanding how public debate and discussion on the conflict in Israel/Gaza has raised questions about the role the of the State in generating and deploying conceptions of violence that perpetuate western colonial-settler relations with the Global South. In making this argument, we will draw on the theoretical contributions of Raewyn Connel, Dorothy Smith, David Harvey, Vijay Prasad and others who have attempted to understand violence from the perspective of subaltern populations in the Global South.
Authors:
Steven Jordan, McGill University, Canada
Elizabeth J Wood, McGill University, Canada
Shaheen Shariff, McGill University, Canada
Chris Dietzel, McGill University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Steven Jordan is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at McGill in Canada
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