PROF Hagar Kotef's Outputs (2)

Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant (2025)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (in press). Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant. Political Theory,

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'.