TY - JOUR
T1 - Arrested childhood in spaces of indifference
T2 - The criminalized children of Occupied East Jerusalem
AU - Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera
AU - Odeh, Shahrazad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 University of Toronto Press Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article discusses the role of the Israeli politico-legal system in framing and constructing the racialization of children and childhood. Drawing on accounts of colonial violence inflicted upon incarcerated children's bodies and lives, and based on Sherene Razack's critical analyses on the "pervasiveness of indifference," we demonstrate how the criminal justice system is fundamental to the Israeli state's targeting of Palestinian children and childhood. Through analyses of political statements by politicians, media coverage, legal transcripts, and individual affidavits of children who have been arrested, we offer an alternative reading of child arrests in Occupied East Jerusalem. We argue that child arrest is a political mechanism through which the processes of colonial dispossession can be seen. We conclude by claiming that the "improved" amendments of the Israeli law dismiss the basic rights of the Palestinian child, thus emphasizing the core role of the Israeli legal system in the state's racist project.
AB - This article discusses the role of the Israeli politico-legal system in framing and constructing the racialization of children and childhood. Drawing on accounts of colonial violence inflicted upon incarcerated children's bodies and lives, and based on Sherene Razack's critical analyses on the "pervasiveness of indifference," we demonstrate how the criminal justice system is fundamental to the Israeli state's targeting of Palestinian children and childhood. Through analyses of political statements by politicians, media coverage, legal transcripts, and individual affidavits of children who have been arrested, we offer an alternative reading of child arrests in Occupied East Jerusalem. We argue that child arrest is a political mechanism through which the processes of colonial dispossession can be seen. We conclude by claiming that the "improved" amendments of the Israeli law dismiss the basic rights of the Palestinian child, thus emphasizing the core role of the Israeli legal system in the state's racist project.
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U2 - 10.3138/cjwl.30.3.003
DO - 10.3138/cjwl.30.3.003
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AN - SCOPUS:85061495529
SN - 0832-8781
VL - 30
SP - 398
EP - 422
JO - Canadian journal of women and the law = Revue juridique La femme et le droit
JF - Canadian journal of women and the law = Revue juridique La femme et le droit
IS - 3
ER -