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Friday, May 08, 2020

Insane academic paper of the day

Published in Mediterranean Politics in April:

Rethinking justice beyond human rights. Anti-colonialism and intersectionality in the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement

This article discusses the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) – a contemporary social movement operating across a number of Arab and western countries. Unlike analysis on the Arab Uprisings which focused on the national dimension of youth activism, we explore how the PYM politics fosters and upholds an explicitly transnational anti-colonial and intersectional solidarity framework, which foregrounds a radical critique of conventional notions of self-determination based on state-framed human rights discourses and international law paradigms. The struggle becomes instead framed as an issue of justice, freedom and liberation from interlocking forms and hierarchies of oppression.
This movement sounds very intellectual and woke!

Here's one of the photos on PYM's Facebook page:


Wow, VERY woke.

Number of times the paper mentions Palestinian violence: Zero
Number of times the paper mentions Palestinian terror: Zero
Number of times the paper mentions "struggle:" 24






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