Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
Co-hosted with Oxford Political Thought Seminar
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Health Communism
Walking with Sankara and Epistemicide: Challenges and Stakes of Anti-colonial Political Thought
Critical Theory and Social Pathology
On Real Abstraction: Wealth and Suffering
Commoning Care & Collective Power - Feminist cues for building another world
Settler Colonial Studies, Secessions of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian Consideration
Recent years have witnessed the framework of Setter Colonialism gaining hegemonic explanatory dominance among attempts to elucidate the Palestine/Israel trajectory. Scrutiny of many texts in this (newly-awoken) domain ultimately reveals that a modest number of new insights have been added to those already published by (anti-Zionist) Arabs and Israelis between 1962 (the foundation of Israel’s Matzpen) and 1974 (the PLO’s adoption of its Ten Point Programme). Whereas the pre-1974 Settler Colonial school was ‘historical’, the 21st century one appears somewhat ‘ahistorical’.
Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate
The Israeli news media has transformed significantly in recent years, due to an unprecedented wave of anti-media populism and online harassment. In this talk, I examine how and why Israeli journalists use their military service as a shield in response to online violence and digital hate, and what may be the implications for the future of media and democracy in Israel. What I call ‘the military-as-alibi strategy’ is highly consequential, I would argue. First, it excludes Israeli citizens who are exempt from military service (mostly Palestinian citizens of Israel and ultra-orthodox Jews).