‘Bodies, Power, Resistance’ is an analysis of how Palestinian women living under Israeli occupation experience and resist power through their corporeal bodies. Foucault claims that it is not power that is the focus of his inquires, but instead ‘the subject.’ This project thus aims to explain how and to what effect the construction of Palestinian women as de facto subjects of Israeli power occurs upon their bodies and how some Palestinian women seek to resist their positions as subjects to Israeli power. The questions this project seeks to address are thus:
- What are the practices through which Palestinian women are formed as subjects to the occupation? In other words, what is the dispositif of occupation?
- What are the practices through which Palestinian women enact resistance to their positions as subjected to occupation? In other words, what is the dispositif of Palestinian women’s resistance?
In explaining Palestinian corporeal resistance vis-à-vis the way Israeli power acts upon Palestinian’s corporeality this project aims to bring to the forefront that it is not possible to investigate either Israeli power or Palestinian resistance in isolation.