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The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Hadeel Assali
Opacity In Gaza: Intimate Relations as Resistance
Date: Wednesday, May 13
Time: 4 pm
Location: Humanities 1, Room 210
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This talk reflects on the long relationship between the people of southern Palestine (Gaza) and the land itself. Gaza’s clay-rich soils have enabled resistance to colonial attempts at annihilation through many forms: the construction of clay ovens when fuel was cut, the making of wares for displaced people who left everything behind, and, of course, the tunnels. However, Palestinians have been colluding with the earth for survival and resistance in a multitude of ways for decades, and these ‘collusions’–or relations–are unintelligible to colonial/Western modes of grasping the land.
Hadeel Assali is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
