SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Allen, Lori (2020) A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Allen, Lori (2013) The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Book Chapters

Allen, Lori (2019) 'Subaltern Critique and the History of Palestine.' In: Fassin, Didier and Harcourt, Bernard E., (eds.), A Time For Critique. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 153-173. (New directions in critical theory)

Allen, Lori (2016) 'Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as seen from a Special Commission.' In: Prashad, Vijay and Makdisi, Karim, (eds.), Land of blue helmets : the United Nations and the Arab world. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Allen, Lori (2015) 'The nation as moral community: language and religion in the 1919 King-Crane Commission.' In: Schayegh, Cyrus and Arsan, Andrew, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 258-268.

Journal Article

Krever, Tor, Veličković, Marina, Mégret, Frédéric, Engle, Karen, Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala, Knox, Robert, Hammouri, Shahd, Quigley, John, Jaber, Nora, Rigney, Sophie, Kendall, Sara, da Silva, Clare, Schwöbel-Patel, Christine, Samour, Nahed, Burgis-Kasthala, Michelle, Teitel, Ruti G, Korhonen, Outi, Bowring, Bill, Allen, Lori, Chandler, David, Nesiah, Vasuki, Pappé, Ilan, Fakhri, Michael, Miller, Zinaida, Drumbl, Mark A, Sayed, Hani, Tzouvala, Ntina, Joyce, Daniel, Douzinas, Costas, Edelbi, Souheir, Hoffmann, Florian, Jallad, Zeina, Becker Lorca, Arnulf, Hajyahia, Alaa, Kolabhai, Reshard L, Almeida Cravo, Teresa, Chiam, Madelaine, Quintana, Francisco-José, Betancur-Restrepo, Laura, Fernandes Carvalho, Fabia, Kulamadayil, Lys, Li, Darryl, Reynolds, John, Sayed, Abdelghany, Eslava, Luis, Whyte, Jessica, Clark, Martin, Clements, Richard, Gevers, Christopher, Shalbak, Ihab, Uriburu, Justina, Özsu, Umut, Hernández, Gleider and Tallgren, Immi (2024) 'On international law and Gaza: critical reflections.' London Review of International Law, 12 (2). pp. 217-301.

Allen, Lori (2024) 'A view from another side, or, not just another quit‐lit essay.' American Ethnologist, 51 (1). pp. 153-157.

Allen, Lori (2018) 'What’s in a Link? Transnational Solidarities Across Palestine and their Intersectional Possibilities.' South Atlantic Quarterly, 117 (1). pp. 111-133.

Allen, Lori (2017) 'Finding indigenous critique in the archives: Thoughts on Didier Fassin’s ‘The Endurance of Critique’.' Anthropological Theory, 17 (2). pp. 265-273.

Allen, Lori (2017) 'Determining Emotions and the Burden of Proof in Investigative Commissions to Palestine.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 59 (2). pp. 385-414.

Allen, Lori (2016) 'Sincerity, Hypocrisy, and Conspiracy Theory in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48 (4). pp. 701-720.

Allen, Lori and Shepherd, Laura (2012) 'Editorial: Gender and Conflict.' Feminist Review, 101. pp. 1-4.

Allen, Lori (2012) 'The Scales of Occupation: 'Operation Cast Lead' and the Targeting of the Gaza Strip.' Critique of Anthropology, 32 (3). pp. 261-284.

Allen, Lori (2009) 'Martyr Bodies in the Media: Human Rights, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Immediation in the Palestinian Intifada.' American Ethnologist, 36 (1). pp. 161-180.

Allen, Lori (2009) 'Mothers of Martyrs and Suicide Bombers: The Gender of Ethical Discourse in the Second Palestinian Intifada.' Arab Studies Journal, 17 (1). pp. 32-61.

Allen, Lori (2008) 'Getting By the Occupation: How Violence became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada.' Cultural Anthropology, 23 (3). pp. 453-487.

Allen, Lori (2006) 'The Polyvalent Politics of Martyr Commemorations in the Palestinian Intifada.' History and Memory, 18 (2). pp. 107-113.

Book Reviews

Allen, Lori (2019) 'The Social Life of Security: Cross-Disciplinary Lessons and Lacunae in Anthropology and Critical Security Studies.' PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Sep (2019).