The political reality of life in Palestine drove me to engage in this book. I witnessed the hunger strike and participated in solidarity with the prisoners’ cause before starting my research in 2014. I wanted to understand the revolutionary transformation that ..
Ashjan Ajour أشجان عجور
Ashjan Ajour completed her PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests and teaching experience are situated in sociology; gender studies; political subjectivity; incarceration; decolonization; and global indigenous politics. She engaged as a Teaching Fellow in Sociology at Warwick University and worked on the “Decolonising the Curriculum” research project at the University of Leicester. She is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Wolverhampton. Her latest publications are Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes: Revolutionary Subjectivity and Decolonizing the Body (Palgrave Macmillan) and an article in Cultural Politics (Duke University Press), “The Spiritualization of Politics and the Technologies of Resistant Body: Conceptualizing Hunger Striking Subjectivity”.