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Decolonizing Truth: Lessons from Palestine

Zisakou, Sophia LU orcid (2026) In Women, Gender and Research 38(1).
Abstract
This essay reflects on the notions of objectivity and truth. Taking Palestine as an urgent political call and a precondition for a decolonial future, it argues that in the context of genocidal violence and the system-atic distortion of reality, objectivity and truth cannot be dismissed merely as tools of oppression. Instead, approaching them as counter-narratives grounded in embodied experiences that have been violently erased by colonial apparatuses of knowledge produc-tion, this essay reclaims truth as situated and from below and as a potential vehicle of justice and epis-temic resistance
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Women, Gender and Research
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Copenhagen University
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10.7146/kkf.v38i1.159565
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