Palestinian Women at the Intersection of Colonial and Patriarchal Violence: Cultural renegotiations of religion and tradition in Gaza

本项目审查了在巴勒斯坦这个父权制社会中干预对妇女的暴力行为所面临的挑战，并以加沙地带为重点，审查了巴勒斯坦妇女对暴力行为的看法和经历，以及她们对在其社区实施的对妇女的暴力行为干预措施的态度。它批判性地审视了对暴力侵害妇女的国际世俗干预模式，同时探索了通过重新利用某些宗教和传统规范来打击暴力侵害妇女的可能性，这些规范是巴勒斯坦社会凝聚力和生存在定居者殖民占领背景下的基础。通过这样做，它产生了新的知识暴力的军事殖民暴力和伊斯兰社会的父权制的交叉点。这是一个应用研究项目，它受到参与式行动研究的影响。它使用定性的方法来解决加沙巴勒斯坦妇女如何应对暴力侵害妇女问题，以及她们如何体验在加沙实施的大多数世俗干预模式。该项目还将吸收暴力侵害妇女问题领域的主要专业人士（非政府组织、警察、心理学家）以及社区和宗教领袖参与，同时突出巴勒斯坦妇女的声音和关切。这是一个与加沙的两个巴勒斯坦组织-加沙心理健康方案和拯救青年未来协会-建立工作关系的应用程序的合作项目。申请人在妇女权利领域拥有丰富的经验，她计划在完成博士学位后利用研究结果实施新的基于社区的暴力侵害妇女问题试点项目。

This project examines the challenges of intervening inViolence Against Women (VAW) in Palestine, a patriarchalsociety, which is also under military-colonial occupation.With a focus on the Gaza Strip, the study examinesPalestinian women's perceptions and experiences of VAWas well as their attitudes toward the interventions on VAWimplemented in their communities. It critically examinesinternational secular models of interventions on VAWwhile, at the same time, exploring the possibility ofcombatting VAW by reappropriating certain religious andtraditional norms, on which Palestinian social cohesion andsurvival rest in the context of settler colonial occupation. Bydoing so, it produces new knowledge on VAW at theintersection of military-colonial violence and patriarchy inIslamic societies. This is an applied research project,which is influenced by participatory action research. Ituses qualitative methods to address how Gaza Palestinianwomen respond to VAW and how they experience themostly secular models of interventions implemented inGaza. The project will also involve key professional figuresin the field of VAW (NGOs, police, psychologists) andcommunity and religious leaders while foregrounding thevoices, concerns of Palestinian women. This is acollaborative project with two Gaza-based Palestinianorganisations-The Gaza Mental Health Programme andthe Save Youth Future Society-with which the applicanthas established working relationships. The applicant hasextensive experience in the field of women rights, and sheis planning to use the findings of the research forimplementing new community-based pilot projects onVAW after the completion of the PhD.