Carceral Citizenship and the Carceral State in Palestine/Israel (title tbc)
When:
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Venue:
Online
Guest lecture for the Birkbeck Criminology Seminar Series.
Contact name: Sappho Xenakis
Speakers-
Dana Boulus
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Dana Boulus is an Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance Officer at the Norwegian Refugee Council. Dana has also worked as an independent researcher, a lawyer specialising in human rights and humanitarian law, and a human rights activist, whose work has included representing Palestinian prisoners.
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Dr Smadar Ben-Natan
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Dr Smadar Ben-Natan is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of Oregon in the US, specializing in human rights, international law, armed conflict, criminal justice, incarceration, colonialism, and Israel/Palestine. Her research and teaching examine law, politics, and inequality on the local and global levels, focusing on penal regimes in the context of colonialism and conflict, primarily in Israel/Palestine. Before transitioning to academia, she was an Israeli and international human rights and criminal defense lawyer whose work included representing Palestinian prisoners. Her recent scholarship appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Theoretical Criminology, Punishment & Society, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies. In 2020-2022 she was a Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript titled Citizen-Enemies: Military Courts and the Construction of Citizenship in Israel/Palestine, and on a second book titled: The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization.
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