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More settler colonial reprocide: Hala Shoman, ‘Reprocide: examining the silenced gendered dimension of Israeli genocide in Gaza’, Journal of Gender Studies, 2026

08Jun26

Abstract: Palestinians have endured decades of Israeli settler-colonial violence and, since October 2023, genocidal violence in Gaza. This article develops reprocide as a broader analytic framework for understanding the full range of reproductive violence and reproductive destruction enacted within settler-colonial and genocidal projects of elimination. Reprocide encompasses direct and indirect attacks on reproductive capacities, reproductive infrastructures, kinship relations, and the material and spatial conditions necessary for sustaining life, intimacy and collective continuity. I do not use reprocide to replace genocide; rather, I use it to clarify a gendered modality of elimination that is often obscured when immediate killing alone is privileged or when legal attention is limited to the prevention of births. Situated within feminist geography, geopolitics, and reproductive justice scholarship, the article shows how the destruction of hospitals, homes and conditions for intimacy links bodily harm to spatial strategies of elimination. Methodologically, the article draws on autoethnographic reflection and testimonies relayed to me by Palestinians in Gaza, triangulated with peer- reviewed scholarship. This article contributes to feminist geography and genocide studies by clarifying the relationship between space, embodiment, reproductive infrastructure, and futurity, and by arguing that reproductive and sexual violence against both women and men should be understood as part of reprocide.


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