Panel
Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
- Date
- Wednesday 24 April 2024
- Time
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 005
In this panel, part of the Leiden University teach-in series on Palestine and Israel Challenging Myths and Exceptions, the speakers will focus on various aspects of environmental colonialism such as:
- Food, cuisine, ecology and land in Palestine, and the struggle against settle colonialism.
- Mass starvation and ecocide: settler colonial tools of oppression in historical perspective.
- Waste colonialism in Palestine: toxicity, environmental racism, and resistance.
- Climate movements and Palestinian solidarity.
This event is only accessible for staff and students of Leiden University - so be sure to bring your LU card.
About the speakers
Elena Burgos Martinez is an environmental anthropologist and a political ecologist.
She is a lecturer of environmental politics at South and Southeast Asian Studies (SSEAS).
Elisa Da Vià is trained in the field of development sociology, food and agrarian studies.
She is a lecturer of political economy and political ecology at International Studies.
Christian Henderson is a scholar of political economy and development in the Middle
East, he is a lecturer of International Relations and Modern Middle East Studies.
Andrea Reyes Elizondo is a researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies working on citizen science and a PhD at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
The session will be chaired by Sai Englert, lecturer of political economy and
development in the Middle East.