The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children
Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives
Authors: Masarwi, Maram
Free Preview- Uses field research findings to explore the subjective experiences of mourning among Palestinian parents and to examine how gender differences are manifested in these experiences
- Demonstrates how the conversion of personal bereavement into collective bereavement is gendered and facilitated by politics and religion
- Blurs the boundaries between the personal and the collective in understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
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- About this book
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This book examines the phenomenon of individual and collective bereavement in Palestinian society. It seeks to explore the boundaries of the discourse of bereavement and commemoration in that society through the interactive relations between religion, nationality and gender, and the ways these influence the shaping of the mourning process for Palestinian parents who have lost their children in the second (al-Aqsa) Intifada. Over the course of the book’s five chapters, Maram Masarwi scrutinizes how these components have shaped the differences in behavior between bereaved fathers and bereaved mothers: what characterizes these differences, how they are expressed, and how they have managed to shape the characteristics of the experience of Palestinian bereavement.
- About the authors
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Maram Masarwi is Lecturer and Researcher at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She also teaches at the Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Israel. She holds a PhD from the Department of Social Work at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and an MA in Education from Lesley University, UK.
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“The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children: Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives is a fascinating book that commemorates the Palestinian trauma, martyrs and their parents. … this book makes a substantial contribution and is an indispensable contribution to the literatures on trauma, bereavement, memory, martyrdom, conflict, life-writing, masculinity, terrorism and gender studies.” (Journal of Contemporary Asia, February 3, 2020)
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Overview: Coping with Bereavement and Trauma
Pages 1-16
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Part One: Loss as Individual and Collective
Pages 17-28
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Part Two: Gender, Religion and Nationalism in the Grieving Process
Pages 29-50
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Part Three: Coping with Bereavement in the Religious, Cultural and Societal Contexts—How Religion and Culture Shape Bereavement
Pages 51-79
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Part Four: National Identity and the Way Bereaved Parents Cope
Pages 81-99
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children
- Book Subtitle
- Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives
- Authors
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- Maram Masarwi
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-18087-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-18087-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-18086-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-18089-8
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6419
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 144
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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