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A Rejoinder to Robert Cherry

A Rejoinder to Robert Cherry Feminist Economics, 2015 Vol. 21, No. 4, 201–205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2015.1074264 Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Antonina Griecci Woodsum, Himmat Zu’bi, and Rachel Busbridge KEYWORDS Citizenship, community, orientalism JEL Codes: Z The central contention of our article, ‘“Funding Pain’: Bedouin Women and Political Economy in the Naqab/Negev,” is that Bedouin women seeking funding for their own development initiatives must reckon with a structure that prefers to culturalize their pain rather than situate them in a broader context of state-based, settler-colonial dispossession. As a consequence, we argue, appeals to donors and access to funding end up further reinforcing the state’s structure of oppression – specifically, through a mechanism of unrecognizability – to emphasize the individuality of Bedouin women’s struggle and resistance. This dynamic is not only indicative of the ways in which donors often position those they fund as so-called victims and constrain the vocabularies in which applications for funding can be made, but it is also reminiscent of colonial assumptions, insofar as Bedouin women find a narrow and Orientalist representation of themselves and their lives on display. Our paper addresses the conditions of the Naqab’s unrecognized villages, inhabited by one segment of the indigenous population that remained in historic Palestine after the 1948 Nakba http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Feminist Economics Taylor & Francis

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Feminist Economics, 2015 Vol. 21, No. 4, 201–205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2015.1074264 Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Antonina Griecci Woodsum, Himmat Zu’bi, and Rachel Busbridge KEYWORDS Citizenship, community, orientalism JEL Codes: Z The central contention of our article, ‘“Funding Pain’: Bedouin Women and Political Economy in the Naqab/Negev,” is that Bedouin women seeking funding for their own development initiatives must reckon with a structure that prefers to culturalize their pain rather than situate them in a broader context of state-based, settler-colonial dispossession. As a consequence, we argue, appeals to donors and access to funding end up further reinforcing the state’s structure of oppression – specifically, through a mechanism of unrecognizability – to emphasize the individuality of Bedouin women’s struggle and resistance. This dynamic is not only indicative of the ways in which donors often position those they fund as so-called victims and constrain the vocabularies in which applications for funding can be made, but it is also reminiscent of colonial assumptions, insofar as Bedouin women find a narrow and Orientalist representation of themselves and their lives on display. Our paper addresses the conditions of the Naqab’s unrecognized villages, inhabited by one segment of the indigenous population that remained in historic Palestine after the 1948 Nakba

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Feminist Economics – Taylor & Francis

Published: Oct 2, 2015

Keywords: Citizenship; community; orientalism; Z

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  • The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People