Authors
Who is the Lebanese anthropologist who studied everyday life and waiting under occupation?
Livia Wick. She studied Palestine, gender & daily life.
What does the checkpoint system regulate besides movement?
Time itself: it controls and fragments daily life.
Whose time is “fast and valuable,” and whose is “cheap and endless”?
Israeli time vs. Palestinian time.
What new roles did women take under closure?
Caregivers and breadwinners.
“Foucault shows how power ______; De Certeau shows how people ______.”
“Foucault shows how power controls life; De Certeau shows how people live and resist within it.”
Where did Livia Wick Study?
American University of Beirut (AUB)
What is De Certeau’s idea of resistance within time?
“Micro-like operations”: small acts that turn waiting into living.
What does Hammami mean by a “community of failure”?
Palestinians are excluded from nation-state citizenship and mobility.
Why did men’s mobility restrictions increase women’s employment?
Families depended on women’s work (nursing, midwifery).
According to Foucault, how does modern power control people?
Through discipline and surveillance, not violence.
Which thinker did both authors draw on to understand power and resistance?
Michel Foucault and Michel de Certeau.
How does Foucault view time in institutions like schools and prisons?
As a tool to discipline the body and normalize behavior.
What symbolizes inequality in Palestine according to the readings?
Waiting. Waiting decides who has power and who doesn’t.
Michel Foucault believed that power was only in governments. (True or False)
False. Everywhere in all relationships and institutions.
In Wick’s article, how is Foucault’s idea seen?
Checkpoints and waiting zones as spaces of discipline and visibility.
Where was Rema Hammami's writing published
Jerusalem Quarterly and many other international jounrals
What phrase did Palestinians create to describe time-space under closure?
Al zam-kaniyah
How does gender intensify inequality in Wick’s study?
Women face economic, emotional, and domestic burdens under closure.
How did women turn daily survival into resistance?
By forming small alliances and keeping life going under occupation.
In Hammami’s work, how is De Certeau’s idea seen?
Palestinians endure queues with humor and dignity shared tactics of survival.
Which author based her writing on her own experiences?
Rema Hammami
How does Hammami use Waiting for Godot as a critique?
To show endless, purposeless waiting as a form of control and despair.
What does Wick’s line “a prison with homes as cells” mean?
Spatial inequality: people are trapped by borders and permits.
What happened to traditional support networks?
They collapsed families and communities became isolated.
According to De Certeau, what do ordinary people do inside systems of power?
They adapt and resist through everyday tactics.