Settler Colonialism & Ecological Violence in Palestine Online (Part 1)
Join us for this two-part workshop series exploring how we can situate Palestine in relation to the climate crisis and ecological violence. We encourage you to attend both workshops, but you can also choose to attend only one.
This workshop aims to deepen understanding of settler colonialism as the driver of land and natural resource destruction in Palestine. The workshop will expand how we think of violence, and explore how settler colonialism both disrupts Indigenous people’s sovereignty over land as well as weaponises natural resources and ‘greenwashing’ to conceal settler violence. Through this, the session will provide a strong foundation for understanding and articulating ecological violence in Palestine.
This series builds on our previous lecture ‘Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf, and American Power in the Middle East’ with the Transnational Institute and Adam Hanieh, to deepen our understanding of the themes presented there. The sessions prioritise interactivity and invite participants to engage in close reading of texts and images in group discussions, and are interspersed with lecturing.
This workshop is suitable for people who are involved in the climate justice movement and would like to learn more about how it applies to the context of Palestine, and/or for people who are involved in the Palestinian liberation movement and would like to learn more about how climate justice is central to it.