Investigators from University of Milano Bicocca Target Psychology and Psychiatry (Gendered Survival Under Genocidal Violence: a Decolonial Feminist Narrative Study of Women and Displaced Families In Gaza).

This article focuses on a study conducted by researchers at the University of Milano Bicocca in Milan, Italy, examining the psychological experiences of 35 displaced Palestinian refugee women during the 2024-2025 assault in Gaza. Using a decolonial feminist psychological framework, the study explores six experiential domains related to survival under siege, including rupture of home, cyclical displacement, and maternal survival work. The research challenges dominant trauma paradigms by situating emotional and bodily experiences within ongoing colonial violence and infrastructural collapse, highlighting care and relational commitments as survival strategies. It contributes to transnational feminist scholarship by emphasizing locally grounded knowledge and offering an alternative understanding of psychological life that resists depoliticization and pathologization. [Extracted from the article]