Published In
Critical and Radical Social Work
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
12-1-2025
Subjects
Social work -- disobedience
Abstract
Palestinian poet and novelist Hiba Abu Nada, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 20, 2023, at the age of 32, taught us that “Oxygen is not for the dead.” Hiba Abu Nada’s (2017) poem, entitled “Our Loneliness,”1 recognizes survivance (Vizenor, 2010)—that is, the active sense of presence and presencing as an endeavor of creating the future (Simpson, 2017)—and asserts Palestinian embodied connections (Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2024) to land/life (Khoury, 2019 [2016]):
DOI
10.1332/20498608Y2025D000000105
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/44461
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Citation Details
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, N., Wahab, S., & Musleh, A. (2025). “Oxygen is not for the dead”: critical and radical social work in Palestine. Critical and Radical Social Work, 13(4), 494–507. https://doi.org/10.1332/20498608y2025d000000105
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