Author Archives: Bethany Elce

About Bethany Elce

Bethany Elce is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, focusing on issues of race, gender, and colonial legacies. She received her PhD in gender studies in 2023. Her thesis explored the impact of transnational, human rights protective accompaniment in occupied Palestine, shedding light on the colonial continuities inherent in accompaniment praxis, and challenging liberal accounts of what accompaniment seeks to be and to do.

Uncertain Solidarities: The Politics of an Impartial Human Rights Stance in Occupied Palestine

November 8, 2024 by
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Protective accompaniment is a non-violent intervention strategy used by international civil society organisations working in the occupied Palestinian territories. This article explores one accompaniment organisation’s discourse and practice of human rights based impartiality. Firstly, the universalising rhetoric of human rights is shown to be a strategic device which acts to obscure the specifics of a mission to protect Palestinian subjects. Secondly, examining accompaniment as praxis in the West Bank, a ‘non-partisan’ stance is shown to result in an embodied and ideological withdrawal from those being Continue reading → Continue reading →