Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return, continued

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA – APRIL 26: Palestinians, returning to Khan Yunis, are viewed around the wreckage, in Khan Yunis of Gaza on April 26, 2024. The streets and streets in the city, in the southern Gaza Strip, are unrecognizable after Israel withdrew, leaving behind devastation. Weeks of Israeli attacks turned the buildings in the city into rubble. Palestinians returning to the region are trying to maintain their daily lives under difficult conditions. Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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