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Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/1/117/899318/117savci.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Saʾed Atshan Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020 xvii + 274 pages. ISBN 9781503612396 Reviewed by EVREN SAVCI At the heart of Saʾed Atshan’s book Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique is the question of how the queer Palestinian solidarity movement that had garnered so much transnational support early in the 2000s ultimately lost momentum and plateaued around 2012. Animated by this inquiry, the study investigates the movement from 2001 to 2018 through ethnography, autoethnography, and interviews. Atshan ultimately attributes much of this loss of momentum to a faction in the movement that he terms “radical purists.” Radical purists, he argues, had several effects on the movement. The most visible trans- formation radical purism produced was shifting political focus from an intersectional understanding of the fights against homophobia and Zionism as intertwined matters to simply prioritizing anti-imperialism over the struggle against heteronormativity. In Palestine/Israel “Palestinian homophobia” has been evoked by the Israeli gov- ernment to position Palestinians as backward and barbaric. This strategy has become especially salient with the LGBTQ dimension of the Brand Israel campaign, the campaign to brand Tel Aviv as a gay destination. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

Savcı, Evren
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies , Volume 17 (1) – Mar 1, 2021
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1552-5864
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/1/117/899318/117savci.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Saʾed Atshan Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020 xvii + 274 pages. ISBN 9781503612396 Reviewed by EVREN SAVCI At the heart of Saʾed Atshan’s book Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique is the question of how the queer Palestinian solidarity movement that had garnered so much transnational support early in the 2000s ultimately lost momentum and plateaued around 2012. Animated by this inquiry, the study investigates the movement from 2001 to 2018 through ethnography, autoethnography, and interviews. Atshan ultimately attributes much of this loss of momentum to a faction in the movement that he terms “radical purists.” Radical purists, he argues, had several effects on the movement. The most visible trans- formation radical purism produced was shifting political focus from an intersectional understanding of the fights against homophobia and Zionism as intertwined matters to simply prioritizing anti-imperialism over the struggle against heteronormativity. In Palestine/Israel “Palestinian homophobia” has been evoked by the Israeli gov- ernment to position Palestinians as backward and barbaric. This strategy has become especially salient with the LGBTQ dimension of the Brand Israel campaign, the campaign to brand Tel Aviv as a gay destination.

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Published: Mar 1, 2021

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