Insurgent social reproduction: the home, the barricade and women’s work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution

Taha, Mai ORCID: 0000-0002-7313-4048 (2025) Insurgent social reproduction: the home, the barricade and women’s work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution. Theory, Culture and Society. ISSN 1460-3616

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Abstract

While the Palestinian home has been a target of relentless demolition and displacement, it has historically also been a place of care, culture, labour, and resistance. Indeed, the home is always becoming, constantly remade with every demolition and every displacement. The home embodies these contradictions: both a crime scene and a revolutionary space; a site of colonial surveillance and destruction, and a grounding site of labour and reconstruction. To engage with these tensions, I return to the revolution of 1936–9 against the British Mandate, a snapshot in the long and ongoing Palestinian revolution. But instead of only looking for revolutionaries in the barricades and the mountains, I look for them in the kitchens, in the bedrooms and in the living rooms. In that sense, I propose that the production of the home space is itself a conceptual site of theorization for what can be called insurgent social reproduction.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	17 Feb 2025 09:30
Last Modified:	08 May 2025 16:42
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127315

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