Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract
The article analyzes Sumūd as an educational and political practice within the dehumanizing context of Palestine, particularly in the Gaza Strip. Framed by critical pedagogy and a decolonial perspective, the study interprets the ongoing genocide as a historical, political, and discursive process that normalizes violence and erodes the very conditions of the human. Drawing on two in-depth narrative interviews with humanitarian workers directly connected to Gaza, the paper adopts a reflexive thematic analysis to explore how Sumūd emerges in everyday life, bodily experience, testimony, memory, and the struggle for justice. The findings show Sumūd as a situated form of collective persistence that preserves humanity within catastrophe through care, presence, counter-narration, and the refusal of erasure. In this sense, Sumūd becomes a pedagogical key for rethinking the relationship between education, violence, peace, and political responsibility.
