An audio recording of this essay, posted on May 15, 2024. Read by the author.
Links to the suggested further reading on necropolitics,‘Colonial management of death: To be or not to be dead in Palestine’ (link), and ‘Fighting to Bury Their Children: on the Necropolitics of Occupation’. The latter is an essay found in Rebellious Mourning edited by Cindy Milstein, and I think it is so important to read that I will be including a link to a PDF of the pages I have scanned. Find it here.
References:
Alsaafin, L. & Amra, A. (2023, November 3). Mass graves, rushed burials: Funeral rites bypass Gaza dead amid Israel war. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/3/mass-graves-rushed-burials-funeral-rites-bypass-gaza-dead-amid-israel-war
Corso, A. (2022, October 6). The smell of bare death: Encountering life at the graveyard of Lampedusa. Sage Journals, 23(3) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14634996221128104
Daher-Nashif, S. (2022) Colonial management of death: To be or not to be dead in Palestine. Current Sociology. https://sci-hub.st/10.1177/0011392120948923
Debre, I., Shurafa, W. (2023, October 28). Mass graves, unclaimed bodies and overcrowded cemeteries. The war robs Gaza of funeral rites. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-israel-graves-gaza-morgue-dead-9b0349ae914e33492c049430e6649c53
Foucault, M. (1976). The History of Sexuality: Right of Death and Power over Life. Editions Gallimard, Paris. https://www.scribd.com/document/339327/History-of-sexuality-vol-1
Kong, Y. et al. Issue 3: Bare Life. CMA Journal. 3. https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-three--bare-life.html
LeWine, H.E. (2023, June 13). Broken-heart syndrome (takotsubo cardiomyopathy). Harvard Health Publishing. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/takotsubo-cardiomyopathy-broken-heart-syndrome
Palitsky, R., Wilson, D.T., Friedman, S.E., Ruiz, J.M., Sullivan, D., O’Connor, M-F. The Relationship of Prolonged Grief Disorder Symptoms With Hemodynamic Response to Grief Recall Among Bereaved Adults. Psychosomatic Medicine 85(6):p 545-550 https://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/fulltext/2023/07000/the_relationship_of_prolonged_grief_disorder.11.aspx
Pappé, I.; Chomsky, N.; Barat, F. (2015) On Palestine. Haymarket Books. https://www.everand.com/book/446836527/On-Palestine
Reeves, N.C. (2011). Death acceptance through ritual. Routledge. https://sci-hub.st/10.1080/07481187.2011.552056
Listen: Thwarted Death in Palestine