Conférence de rentrée en sociologie

PSAD Louvain-La-Neuve

Conférence de rentrée en sociologie

"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.

La conférence sera donnée en Anglais - The conference will be held in English

Informations pratiques

  • Le mercredi 16 octobre - 16.30 à 18.30 - Conférence de rentrée en sociologie - AGORA 13 - Entrée Libre
  • en collaboration avec la Nasa et le collège des sociologues louvanistes
  • et avec le soutien de PSAD et la Chaire Jacques Leclercq