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Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Perspective on Promotion and Tenure Regulations in Palestine and beyond / Kassis, Mudar; Giacaman, Rita; Hashweh, Maher

Kassis, Mudar	Journal Article
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Using the model of promotion and tenure regulations prevalent in Palestine as an impetus, this article argues that these regulations perpetuate neo-coloniality by localizing and reproducing hegemonic center–periphery relations in academia. This is especially true when it comes to using scientometric criteria in the evaluation of knowledge produced by Arab academics and which gives preference to English language over Arabic language publications, to journals over monographs, and when adopting Western assumptions about the form and substance of academic knowledge production. Consequently, Arab universities expand the reach of Western dominance and its control techniques.

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Knowledge Production ; Arab Universities ; Bibliometrics and Scientometrics ; Decolonial Strategies ; Promotion and Tenure

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Reframing public health in wartime: from the biomedical model to the “wounds inside” / Giacaman, Rita

Giacaman, Rita	Journal Article
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This article traces the research trajectory of the Institute of Community and Public Health (ICPH) at Birzeit University, whose work focuses on life and health outcomes for Palestinians living in chronic warlike conditions under Israeli settler-colonial rule. Over decades of field-based work, ICPH researchers came to the realization that medicalized responses to trauma contributed to concealing the social and political meaning that Palestinians attribute to their collective experience. By adopting an approach that linked the biological/biomedical sphere to the political sphere through the concept of suffering, and exposing the sociopolitical conditions of life and the collective trauma inducing nature of Israeli military occupation and repression, ICPH's research has allowed for the simultaneous personalization of war and politicization of health. In addition to discussing some of the health problems identified by ongoing investigations, the article also touches on the ways in which institution building and research production are linked to the capacity of Palestinians to endure and resist violation in their struggle for justice.

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Insecurity ; Humiliation ; Deprivation ; Occupied Palestinian Territories ; Suffering ; Political Determinants Of Health ;
Self-Rated Health Measureshealth Outcomes

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