For the Love of Genocide

Part of the Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement Speaking Series

Thursday, March 6, 2025 4:00pm-6:00pm | Cervantes Velasquez Room, Bay Tree Bldg, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

This presentation unravels love in its colonial manifestation as a rationale for genocidal violence. It centers in its analysis the discourse currently used by those supporting and perpetuating genocide in Gaza. Love expressed in contexts of Zionist loyalties and its brand of settler nationalism, originally and across its transit, gives us insight into the feelings that animate acts of violence. In response to it, Palestinian expression, particularly in relation to atrocity and apocalyptical dread, reveals what precedes in fundamental form and must conquer genocide. How must we bear love in the face of annihilation? What ideas of it must we confront? Whose love must we learn?

This Event is Sponsored By:

UCSC Center for Racial Justice | Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | Department of Feminist Studies | Department of Sociology | CSAS | The Center for Cultural Studies | FJP | SJP | Institute for Social Transformation

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