“There was Something Inside of me I Needed to Let Out”: Occupied Masculinities, Emotional Expression and Rap Music in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

2021 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2110190
Author(s):  
Chloe Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Emotional Suppression ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Dialogic Performance ◽  
Fluid Parameters

Although normative constructions of masculinity in Palestine denote emotional suppression as an idealized attribute, extreme subjugation under the grinding realities of a colonial military occupation requires that this ideal is negotiated. This article explores Palestinian rap as a channel through which emotions related to individual and collective oppression are expressed within the (fluid) parameters of a particular emergent masculine performance. Through qualitative research with young Palestinian men living in a refugee camp, I argue that emotional expression within this musical culture both functions to reconfigure binary gendered dynamics, while simultaneously masculinizing emotionality through a dialogic performance of emotion, nationalism, resistance, and paternalism. In some ways, patriarchal gendered binaries are hence challenged in and through the performance of Palestinian rap, while in other ways these are reconfigured so that men’s emotional expression can be subsumed within them. This article, therefore, examines the negotiation of “masculinity as emotional suppression” through rap, in a context in which internal patriarchal powers are routinely threatened by colonial patriarchal forces.

scholarly journals In/distinction On Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s A Photographic Conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp

1970 ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Daniel Berndt
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Photographs

As the “abbreviation that telescopes history into a moment” Cadava, 1992, p. 101),photography “is always related to something other than itself” (Cadava, 1992, p. 100).But rather than being material evidences that speak for themselves, photographs aremore like “silent witnesses” in relation to this “other”, and to the reality that definesthe context of their production and reception. By listening to various voices andstories around and about images, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s A Photographic Conversationfrom Burj al-Shamali Camp (2001–present) — a multi-layered project developed overthe time span of more than 10 years — is trying to get photographs ‘to speak’ aboutthis reality, in this case that of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp in theSouth of Lebanon. Combining archival, historical, and anthropological practices,as well as a variety of artistic forms of expression — from publications and curatedexhibitions with a group of adolescents to Eid-Sabbagh’s most recent performancesand lectures that include a sporadic display of videos and historical photographs this project is primarily a tribute to the individual, in that it is the individual’s actionsand convictions that contribute to the formation of a meaningful community. At thesame time, it examines socio-political circumstances and dynamics while cherishingintimacy and personal recollections.

scholarly journals The effect of organizational member's allocentrism-idiocentrism on the emotion expression and favoritism

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-722
Author(s):  
YoungSik Kim ◽  
YongWon Suh
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Emotion Expression ◽  
Emotional Suppression ◽  
Emotion Suppression ◽  
Negative Condition ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Emotion Type ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

In this article, three studies were performed to investigate the differences of the tendency to regulate emotion expression in terms of the organizational member's cultural dispositions. Study 1 four hypothsises. First, allocentrics will have a higher level of emotion suppression than that of idiocentrics. Second, allocentrics will have a higher level of negative attitude towords emotion expressions than idiocentrices. third, the relation between allocentrics and emotion suppression will mediated by negative attitude to emotional expression. finally, allocentircs will be negatively evaluated than idiocentrics who shows emotional expression freely. For this study, data was collected from 196 employees by survey questionnaires. In study 1, it was found that allocentrics have a higher level of emotional suppression and negative attitude towards emotional expression than idiocentirics. The relation between allocentrics and emotional expression were mediated by negative attitude to emotional expression. But hypothesis 4 was not supported. In study 2, we experimented by including positive and negative conditions to examine the difference of emotional regulations between allocentrics and idiocentrics. The results show that allocentrics and idiocentrics do not differ in positive condition. However, in negative condition, allocentrics are more emotionally suppressed than that of idocentrics. Study 3 shows that by applying emotion type we were able to evaluate the fourth hypothesis of the first study. In socially engaged conditions, allocentrics were more favorable than idiocentrics. In socially disengaged conditions shows that allocentrics favored anger suppressing individuals over idiocentrics. Finally, implications and limitations of these results were discussed.

scholarly journals Decolonial {R}evolution: Petrocracy and Geological Modernity from Detroit to Palestine and Back

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Site Conditions ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Palestinian Refugee

This article explores what Grace Lee Boggs called {r}evolution—the horizontal construction of autonomous power from below by multiple subjects—in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This is a decolonial uprising from Haiti to Detroit against petrocracy, or the mutually reinforcing rule of fossil fuels and monotheism. I pursue a decolonial reading of the Holocene/Anthropocene geological epochs through an anarchaeological, visual, and discourse analysis of the excavations at Tell-es-Sultan, asserted to be the site of the biblical Jericho, to reconsider the “human.” The article interacts present-day, on-site conditions at the Palestinian refugee camp ‘Ein-as-Sultan with Kathleen Kenyon’s famous excavations (1952–1958), her discoveries and the museology associated with them, and the geopolitical and religious claims made for the site. I conclude by analyzing how “Detroit” is becoming the floating name for the non-continuous spaces of the displaced world, where displacement, drought, and counterinsurgency intermingle to deadly effect.

Violence in the ‘Ayn al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, 2007–2009

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 861-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royce A Hutson ◽  
Harry Shannon ◽  
Taylor Long
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Palestinian Refugee

scholarly journals Palestinian Refugee Identity: Marginalization And Resistance In Refugee Camps In Lebanon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Sabarini
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
A Site

Through a review of theoretical literature on the topics of space, power, and identity as well as literature on the Palestinian refugee situation in Lebanon, this research paper uses a critical approach to space in order to examine how Palestinian identity is formed within the specific context of refugee camps in Lebanon. The refugee camp has been used by the Lebanese state as a disciplinary tool to contain identities, but it has also served as a site for the displaced Palestinians to construct meaningful lives and create new places and identities. This paper will specifically examine the way in which a marginalized collective identity as well as an identity of resistance has been formed and renegotiated using culture, memory, and militancy by displaced Palestinian refugees living within the boundaries of camps in Lebanon.

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