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PROF Hagar Kotef's Outputs (18)

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'.

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.

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.

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]

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,

Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine (2011)
Journal Article
Kotef, H., & Amir, M. (2011). Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine. Theory, Culture and Society, 28(1), 55-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276410380940

Looking at one site, the Israeli checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territory, this article seeks to understand the mechanisms by which violence can present itself as justifiable (or justified), even when it materializes within frames presumably... Read More about Between Imaginary Lines: Violence and its Justifications at the Military Checkpoints in Occupied Palestine.

Home/ Ba’it (2010)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2010). Home/ Ba’it

Objects of Security: Gendered Violence and Securitized Humanitarianism in Occupied Gaza (2010)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2010). Objects of Security: Gendered Violence and Securitized Humanitarianism in Occupied Gaza. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 30(2), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2010-003

This essay seeks to define the current regime of national security, tracing a shift within the gender categories that subtend notions of justified (state) violence. It focuses on Israel's occupation, and in particular its violent control over the Gaz... Read More about Objects of Security: Gendered Violence and Securitized Humanitarianism in Occupied Gaza.

(En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention (2007)
Journal Article
Kotef, H., & Amir, M. (2007). (En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 32(4), 973-996. https://doi.org/10.1086/512623

This article is the outcome of three years of experience, between the two of us, of weekly shifts, standing with Checkpoint Watch (CPW) at the checkpoints that are spread throughout the Palestinian Occupied Territories. It is the product of these thr... Read More about (En)Gendering Checkpoints: Checkpoint Watch and the Repercussions of Intervention.