SON[I]A #405
Lara and Stephen Sheehi
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Lebanese writers, researchers, and activists Lara and Stephen Sheehi have long been politically active, supporting and thinking alongside the Palestinian resistance and liberation struggles. Their recent co-authored book, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine, reflects a convergence of Lara’s practice as a clinical psychologist on the one hand, and Stephen’s exploration of Arab cultural phenomena with a psychoanalytic and Marxist bent on the other.
Lara and Stephen’s work is grounded in a deep commitment to decolonial feminist, queer, and Indigenous practices of psycho-therapeutic commons in the context of Palestine. In critically exploring what a decolonial methodology looks like, they expose and dismantle the complex fabric of racial capitalist and settler-colonial structural violence, which they describe as “reality-bending” and “ideological (mis)attunements”.
In this podcast, Lara and Stephen Sheehi walk us through the day-to-day reality of psychoanalysis under occupation, Zionist psy-ops and (anti)oppressive praxis. They talk about psychological warfare and about Sumud—or the reverie of resistance—, and discuss the worldliness of our subjectivities in a world that is not the same for everyone.
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Conversation: pantea and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros. Script and sound production: pantea. Sounds: Compilation of native bird sounds from Palestine by BJ Nilsen, both from his personal archive and the Xeno-canto archive. Sound treatment by pantea.
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Sounds:
Intro: all the birds at once, by BJ Nilsen
Grey Heron, recorded by Martin Billard
White Stork, recorded by Мітла Андрій Володимирович
Northern Raven, recorded by Lars Edenius
Eurasian Eagle-Owl, recorded by Lars Edenius
Common Kestrel, recorded by SonoNatura
Common Starling, recorded by Lars Edenius
Greater Flamingo, recorded by Stanislas Wroza
Common Cuckoo, recorded by SonoNatura
Common Buzzard, recorded by Martin Billard
European Goldfinch, recorded by Lee Alder
Peregrine Falcon, recorded by Sven Normant
Ortolan Bunting, recorded by Lars Edenius
Western Jackdaw, recorded by Simon Elliott
Common Kingfisher, recorded by Teet Sirotkin
Rock Dove, recorded by Paul Marvin
Peregrine Falcon, recorded by Lars Edenius
Common Blackbird, recorded by Olivier Swift
All of the above recordings are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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