A Rejoinder to Robert Cherry

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Rachel Busbridge is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut für Islamwissenschaft (Institute of Islamic Studies), Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Germany, and Research Associate at the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Antonina Griecci Woodsum is a PhD candidate in History at Columbia University. She works on settler colonialism and the intersections of indigenous and labor histories.

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is Director of the Gender Studies Program and Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a native Palestinian and a longtime anti-violence and feminist activist and scholar. Her research focuses on femicide and other forms of gendered violence, abuse of power in settler colonial contexts, surveillance, securitization, and trauma in militarized and colonized zones. Her most recent book, Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian plays a prominent role in the local Palestinian community and engages in direct action and critical dialogue in order to end the inscription of power over Palestinian women's and children's lives, bodies, and spaces of death.

Himmat Zu'bi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She works on settler colonialism, surveillance, and everyday resistance. In the past, she was the coordinator of the Gender Studies Program, Mada al-Carmel- Haifa.

Notes

1 The Prawer Plan, formulated in 2011 and approved by the Israeli Knesset in 2013, includes the forced mass relocation of up to 70,000 Bedouin into government-approved townships and the demolition of some thirty-five “unrecognized” villages in the Naqab.