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DR Lori Allen's Outputs (18)

On international law and Gaza: critical reflections (2024)
Journal Article
Krever, T., Veličković, M., Mégret, F., Engle, K., Ní Aoláin, F., Knox, R., Hammouri, S., Quigley, J., Jaber, N., Rigney, S., Kendall, S., da Silva, C., Schwöbel-Patel, C., Samour, N., Burgis-Kasthala, M., Teitel, R. G., Korhonen, O., Bowring, B., Allen, L., Chandler, D., …Tallgren, I. On international law and Gaza: critical reflections. London Review of International Law, 12(2), 217-301. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrae012

A view from another side, or, not just another quit‐lit essay (2023)
Journal Article
Allen, L. (2024). A view from another side, or, not just another quit‐lit essay. American Ethnologist, 51(1), 153-157. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13232

Academic anthropology is a paradoxical realm. On the one hand, opportunities for creatively exploring the human condition are hemmed in by administrators and bureaucracy. On the other hand, scholars in the academy have the space to call for justice—i... Read More about A view from another side, or, not just another quit‐lit essay.

A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (2020)
Book
Allen, L. (2020). A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503614192

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened o... Read More about A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine.

Determining Emotions and the Burden of Proof in Investigative Commissions to Palestine (2017)
Journal Article
Allen, L. (2017). Determining Emotions and the Burden of Proof in Investigative Commissions to Palestine. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 59(2), 385-414. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417517000081

The conflict in Palestine has been the subject of numerous international investigative commissions over the past century. These have been dispatched by governments to determine the causes of violent conflicts and how to resolve them. Commissions both... Read More about Determining Emotions and the Burden of Proof in Investigative Commissions to Palestine.

Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. (2016)
Journal Article
Allen, L. (2016). Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48(4), 701-720. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743816000830

Concerns about lying and sincerity in politics are common in most societies, as are concerns about conspiracy theories. But in the occupied Palestinian territory, these concerns give rise to particular kinds of effects because of the conditions of Is... Read More about Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory..

The Scales of Occupation: 'Operation Cast Lead' and the Targeting of the Gaza Strip (2012)
Journal Article
Allen, L. (2012). The Scales of Occupation: 'Operation Cast Lead' and the Targeting of the Gaza Strip. Critique of Anthropology, 32(3), 261-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X12449103

This article analyses the role of scalar politics in the 22-day Israeli assault on the occupied Gaza Strip that happened in the winter of 2008–9, and argues that practices of organizing and representing different kinds of scale have helped normalize... Read More about The Scales of Occupation: 'Operation Cast Lead' and the Targeting of the Gaza Strip.

Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada (2009)
Journal Article
Allen, L. (2009). Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada. American Ethnologist, 36(1), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.01100.x

The growth of the human rights regime in the Palestinian occupied territories during the last two decades and the spread of visual media have had an extreme effect on the nature of Palestinian politics and society. They have transformed the way Pales... Read More about Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada.

Getting By the Occupation: How Violence became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada (2008)
Journal Article
Allen, L. (2008). Getting By the Occupation: How Violence became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada. Cultural Anthropology, 23(3), 453-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00015.x

The second Palestinian intifada against Israeli occupation, which began in September 2000, saw Palestinian areas repeatedly invaded and shelled by Israeli forces. A long history of war and targeted cities is told along the thoroughfares of Palestinia... Read More about Getting By the Occupation: How Violence became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada.

The Polyvalent Politics of Martyr Commemorations in the Palestinian Intifada (2006)
Journal Article
Allen, L. (2006). The Polyvalent Politics of Martyr Commemorations in the Palestinian Intifada. History and memory, 18(2), 107-113. https://doi.org/10.1353/ham.2007.0001

During the second Palestinian intifada (uprising), which began in September 2000, martyr funerals and posters were the most predominant form of memorialization. These practices did not constitute simple expressions of nationalist sentiment; they crea... Read More about The Polyvalent Politics of Martyr Commemorations in the Palestinian Intifada.