PHOTOGRAPHY | PALESTINE | HISTORY
How Palestine Is Being Colonized
From the point of view of the Land
Want a quick visual introduction to how Palestine was colonized? I am pleased to share these slides from my presentation to the Ecologies of Labour Network (Oct 25, 2024). Photos by the author augmented with quotes from my book Fugitive Dreams.
Link to presentation:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7261377072994902016/
Ecological Labour as an Instrument of Colonization: My Personal Experience in Occupied Palestine
“‘Making the desert green’ is the eternal theme of conquerors,” Hanhan writes in Fugitive Dreams. Born an Arabic-speaking Palestinian in Jerusalem, he grew up in the shadow of this large-scale endeavor called ‘Zionism’, where conquest, population removal, and ethnocide are disguised as ecological progress. Using a combination of readings and photographs, Hanhan illustrates how Palestine’s environment has been severely harmed by a system that rations it for the benefit the newcomers to the land. This destructive ecological segregation is contrasted with the one in his new home — North America.
Many thanks to Professor Anastasia Christou and the Ecologies of Labour Network, Middlesex University / Nottingham Trent University for hosting this.
