Reclaiming humanity in Palestinian hunger strikes: Revolutionary subjectivity and decolonizing the body

The deployment of the physical body into a site of struggle and resistance remains one of the most poignant and controversial methods of protest. Due to its tremendous toll, practising hunger strikes have always provoked extreme reactions, from bitter irony to deepest admiration.

In just a matter of days, physical and mental deterioration begin to take effect. Ultimately, it can lead to death.

However, despite this high cost risk, hunger strikes have become a long-standing tradition and weapon for Palestinian prisoners, whose revolutionary subjectivity, according to Ashan Ajour, is exercised through this radical political action in the Israeli jails to not only regain, but also maintain dignity and humanity.

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