Citation

Abu-Rabia-Queder S. Br. J. Sociol. 2022; 73(2): 387-401.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, London School of Economics and Political Science, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1468-4446.12924

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper analyzes the unmarked forms of discipline and punishment employed against Palestinian researchers in Israeli academia, attempting to decolonize it through critical knowledge production. Based on interviews with 15 researchers from a cross-section of academic institutions in Israel, the paper identifies subtle mechanisms of discipline and punishment, directed toward normalizing the epistemology of the colonized. The findings suggest that the gatekeepers of Israeli academia not only seek to maintain the existing racial hierarchy between Israeli and Palestinian researchers but also seek to ?eliminate? the indigenous epistemology of the latter through mechanisms of hidden surveillance, used to control them as colonized subjects unable to challenge the Zionist ideology that is an essential aspect of Israeli academia. The current paper aims to unpack these invisible mechanisms of surveillance, which are part of a broader colonial apparatus aiming to maintain not only territorial sovereignty but also epistemologic sovereignty.

Keywords

coloniality of knowledge; decolonization; epistimology; higher education; surveillance