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

Thursday, May 22, 2025 4:00pm-6:00pm | Cervantes Velasquez Room, Bay Tree Bldg, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

Land education, as both theory and pedagogy, works to unsettle the colonial dynamics that often remain quietly buried within land relations and learning environments. In this talk, I think with the geographies of Palestine to engage in a critical reading of two landscapes - pine forests and olive groves - to confront the ways in which settler colonial inheritances manifest across ecologies. From this reading, I discuss how pedagogical experiences and curricular designs rooted in land, for example, tree planting activities that are pervasive environmental education, can serve to either reinscribe colonial dynamics or, alternatively, can be designed in ways that build transnational solidarities and prefigure decolonial futures.