This is a continuation of the series, Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return, published on October 31. The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region.
As the essays in this series go to press, a genocidal war in Gaza continues to escalate throughout Palestine and around the region. 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza face famine-like conditions, all critical infrastructure has been destroyed, and not a single university in Gaza is functional. The buildings of Gaza's several universities are 80 percent destroyed; hundreds of educators and thousands of students have been killed. Oxford scholar Karma Nablusi, referring to the context of the Israeli assault on Gaza in 2009, called the repeated and systematic destruction of Palestinian educational institutions over time, scholasticide. In the face of this ongoing catastrophe, this Hot Spots series contributes to continued efforts to amplify and produce multi-dimensional and layered scholarship on Palestine in regional perspective.
Posts in This Series
Caught Between War and Dispossession: The Struggles of Palestinian Bedouins in the Naqab/Negev Amid the Gaza Conflict
These essays in this series were written in August and September, 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region. The Palestinian Bed... More
Settler Universities: Israeli Higher Education and the Ongoing Nakba
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region On October 11, 2023, Israe... More
Palestine Pedagogies: Teaching in a Time of Genocide
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region. On October 17, 2023, ten ... More
Algorithmic Supply Chains
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region. Israel’s war in Gaza is d... More
Sonic Meditations for Wartime
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region. In early August, I joined... More
From the Fighters of the Second Intifada to the Fighters of Operation Al Aqsa Flood
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region. Who are the men who cross... More
Resistance, Captivity, and Colonial Repression: The Struggles of Palestinian Political Prisoners During the Gaza Genocide
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region. The prison resistance and... More
Ode to the Rooster: The Hope of Ongoing Return
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region.... More
The Sea that Separates Us: Lebanon, Palestine, and Return
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region. Beirut is about 180 miles... More
Against Fragmentation in a Time of Genocide
The essays in this series were written during the summer of 2024, and may not fully address rapidly escalating violence in the region.... More