Area and Development Studies
ESRC +3
institue of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Start date: September 2022
Research topic: Women, Resistance & Mental Health in Palestine
My research adopts participatory methods to investigate how Palestinian women engage in resistance and how they perceive settler colonial violence and acts of resistance to impact their mental health. In understanding the intersections between resistance, settler colonial violence and mental health from the perspectives of Palestinian women, my research challenges Western, biomedical notions of mental health and, instead, centre resistance and Indigenous sovereignty as central tenants to the attainment of wellbeing.
Research supervisors: Dr Katie Natanel, Dr Sabiha Allouche
Email: jh1463@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeaninehourani
Website/Blog: https://www.jeaninehourani.com/