Ce mercredi 16 octobre, nous avons acceuilli Abeer Musleh, dans le cadre de la conférence de rentrée en Sociologie. Ce fut un moment riche en échanges, cloturé par une standing ovation.
"Youth Work and act of Being in Palestine" Abeer Musleh, Université de Bethlehem, Palestine
Abeer Musleh is the chair of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Bethlehem, Palestine. She holds a Master Degree from Birzeit University, Palestine, and a PhD in Social Policy from Brandeis University, Massachusetts. She is the current Vice-President of the Research Committee 34, “Sociology of Youth” of the International Sociological Association.
Her forthcoming chapter is “Blurring lines: Youth development, colonization, and climate change. in work Global Youth Protest, Climate and Education” (Routledge, 2024). Her latest articles include “Gender Empowerment in Youth Work in Palestine: A Missing Link” (Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work, 2024) and “Transnational Research Collectives as “Constellations of Co-Resistance” (Qualitative Inquiry, 2022). Her research focuses on youth development and organizing in Palestine, youth cooperatives as part of the resilience economy model and challenges of climate change and youth exclusion.
Youth Work and act of Being in Gaza
Living a genocidal war in Gaza transforms youth social navigation from the concept of “being and becoming” to “Being”. This presentation will examine how young people recreate their life under severe atrocities through their engagement in their community. It will analyze some cases of young people group dynamics that provide collective and individual support not only to survive but to BE. it will explore how youth invent the meaning of their survivor amid a war through the youth initiative within a forced spaciocide.
