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Torture’s Bureaucracy and the 'Legitimacy Effect' (2025)
Journal Article
Kotef, H., & Amir, M. (online). Torture’s Bureaucracy and the 'Legitimacy Effect'. Perspectives on Politics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724001105

This article tells the story of one small department in the Israeli Ministry of Justice: “The Inspector for Complaints Against General Security Service (GSS) Interrogators” (in Hebrew: Mavtan). Tasked with examining complaints of torture in GSS inter... Read More about Torture’s Bureaucracy and the 'Legitimacy Effect'.

Settler colonialism and home (2023)
Book Chapter
Kotef, H., & Handel, A. (2023). Settler colonialism and home. In P. Boccagni (Ed.), Handbook on Home and Migration (158-169). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882775.00022

Settler colonialism is a specific configuration of the complex relationship between home and immigration. As an organized migration movement, settler colonialism is a political movement whose main aim is the construction of senses of home and belongi... Read More about Settler colonialism and home.

John Locke (2023)
Book Chapter
Kotef, H. (2023). John Locke. In M. Ramgotra, & S. Choat (Eds.), Rethinking Political Thinkers. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198847397.003.0007

This chapter discusses John Locke’s theory of the social contract, which became one of the primary frameworks of political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on one of his books, The Second Treatise of Government, first p... Read More about John Locke.

Locke's Consuming Individual: A Theory of the Mixing Body (2022)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2022). Locke's Consuming Individual: A Theory of the Mixing Body. Theory and Event, 25(2), 419-443. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0018

This article proposes that Locke’s basic property-making unit, and thus also contracting unit, is the household rather than the individual. Progressing through two parallel arguments concerning Locke’s theory of property—one focuses on the theory of... Read More about Locke's Consuming Individual: A Theory of the Mixing Body.

Jerusalem Narratives: A Phenomenological Analysis of Place in Palestine-Israel (2021)
Thesis
Kensicki, A. E. Jerusalem Narratives: A Phenomenological Analysis of Place in Palestine-Israel. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research explores the production of place in one of the most highly contested cities in the world. Taking Jerusalem as a context, I explore Palestinians’ and Israelis’ constructions of the ancient city from across Palestine-Israel, including Isr... Read More about Jerusalem Narratives: A Phenomenological Analysis of Place in Palestine-Israel.

The Colonizing Self : Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine (2020)
Book
Kotef, H. (2020). The Colonizing Self : Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012863

The Colonizing Self examines practices of homemaking in Israel/Palestine to understand how people develop attachments to spaces of violence and how they consequently become willful participants in state violence. The author explores the cultural, pol... Read More about The Colonizing Self : Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine.