The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives /

• Main Author: Masarwi, Maram (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Subjects: Ethnology-Middle East .; Cultural heritage.; Historiography.; Peace.; Middle East-Politics and government.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Cultural Heritage.; Memory Studies.; Conflict Studies.; Middle Eastern Politics.
• Physical Description: XXVII, 144 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030180874
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18087-4

This book examines the phenomenon of individual and collective bereavement in Palestinian society. It seeks to explore the boundaries of the discourse of bereavement and commemoration in that society through the interactive relations between religion, nationality and gender, and the ways these influence the shaping of the mourning process for Palestinian parents who have lost their children in the second (al-Aqsa) Intifada. Over the course of the book's five chapters, Maram Masarwi scrutinizes how these components have shaped the differences in behavior between bereaved fathers and bereaved mothers: what characterizes these differences, how they are expressed, and how they have managed to shape the characteristics of the experience of Palestinian bereavement.