Hospicing Gaza (غزة): stunned languaging as poetic cries for a heartbreaking scholarship

Badwan, Khawla ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1808-724X and Phipps, Alison (2025) Hospicing Gaza (غزة): stunned languaging as poetic cries for a heartbreaking scholarship. Language and Intercultural Communication. ISSN 1470-8477

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Abstract

The article explores the notion of stunned languaging in the construction of poetic cries as a genre of grief in times of unspeakability while witnessing the online streaming of the Gaza Genocide. Weaving together conceptual, experiential, and poetic threads and traces, the article presents a hospicing project of heartbreaking scholarship as a form of bearing witness, collective accountability, and a care commons. It discusses the role of language in mobilising the immobile through poetic cries that speak to failing intercultural projects and argues for the need for attending to the languaging of mourning and grief as hospicing work that is both post-human and post-secular.