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Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant (2025)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2025). Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant. Political Theory, 53(3), 354-379. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251341906

This paper reads Wretched of the Earth with Lauren Berlant, and specifically through the prism of Cruel Optimism. I propose that we might read the concept of decolonization that opens “On Violence” (decolonization as a replacement for which violence... Read More about Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant.

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'.

Developing Women's Citizenship? Politics, Participation, and Governance in International Development in Jordan (2024)
Thesis
Schenkel, B. Developing Women's Citizenship? Politics, Participation, and Governance in International Development in Jordan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This interdisciplinary study interrogates the nexus between women’s active citizenship, political participation, and governance in international development in Jordan. The critiques of the depoliticizing effects of both neoliberalism and internationa... Read More about Developing Women's Citizenship? Politics, Participation, and Governance in International Development in Jordan.

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.

The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes (2023)
Thesis
Elce, B. The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This interdisciplinary study uses the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) as a case study through which to explore and critique accompaniment as a form of nonviolent, transnational, civil society intervention in the occ... Read More about The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes.

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.

In-Secure Identities: on the Securitization of Abnormality (2017)
Journal Article
Kotef, H., & Amir, M. (2018). In-Secure Identities: on the Securitization of Abnormality. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(2), 236-254. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817744780

Highly securitized sites, such as airports, are increasingly using screening methods designed to purge racial profiling from their practices. In these contexts, not only are profiling methods seen as unlawful, but are also perceived as ineffective fr... Read More about In-Secure Identities: on the Securitization of Abnormality.

Little Chinese Feet Encased in Iron Shoes: Freedom, Movement, Gender, and Empire in Western Political Thought (2015)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2015). Little Chinese Feet Encased in Iron Shoes: Freedom, Movement, Gender, and Empire in Western Political Thought. Political Theory, 43(3), 334-355. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591715579515

This essay traces the evocations of the Chinese practice of foot-binding in Western political thought. I examine the changing deployments of the image: as a contrast to European freedom or as a mirror reflecting its own limitations. The bound feet no... Read More about Little Chinese Feet Encased in Iron Shoes: Freedom, Movement, Gender, and Empire in Western Political Thought.

Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (2015)
Book
Kotef, H. (2015). Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822375753

We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Orderi... Read More about Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility.

Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic (2014)
Journal Article
Kotef, H., & Amir, M. (2015). Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 47(3), 671-688. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12130

On 26 December 2003 an Israeli activist was shot by the Israeli Army whilehe was participating in a demonstration organized by Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW)in the West Bank. This was the first time Israeli Soldiers have deliberately shot live bul... Read More about Limits of Dissent, Perils of Activism: Spaces of Resistance and the New Security Logic.

Normal [in Hebrew] (2014)
Journal Article
Kotef, H., & Merav, A. (2014). Normal [in Hebrew]. Mafte'akh : lexical review of political thought = מפתח, 9, 111-131

Baking at the Front Line, Sleeping with the Enemy: Some Reflections on Gender and Women’s Peace Activism in Israel (2012)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2012). Baking at the Front Line, Sleeping with the Enemy: Some Reflections on Gender and Women’s Peace Activism in Israel. Politics & Gender, 7(4), 551-572. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X11000353

One day in the summer of 2004, a shift of activists from Checkpoint Watch (CPW) brought to the checkpoint some cookies that one of them had baked earlier that morning. Checkpoint Watch is an all-women Israeli organization that opposes the Israeli che... Read More about Baking at the Front Line, Sleeping with the Enemy: Some Reflections on Gender and Women’s Peace Activism in Israel.

Movement (2012)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2012). Movement. Political concepts, 2,