My dissertation monograph answered a series of geographic questions. How do Palestinian sustainable agricultural knowledges and practices serve their struggles for sovereignty? To answer this, two further questions arise: 1) What role has sustainable agricultural science and development played in settler colonialism in Palestine since the nineteenth century? and 2) How have agricultural science and development co-produced racial and gendered identities and definitions of indigeneity in Palestine over time?
I am currently expanding on the themes of my dissertation through my book project, which explores the transnational connections between theorizing sustainability in Palestine and California.
I have multiple published and forthcoming publications based on my dissertation research.
An article based on my historical research connecting the settler colonization of California and Palestine through scientific agriculture is under review at Journal of Political Ecology. This paper is the award winner of the Political Ecology Society's Eric Wolf Paper Prize.
I am delivering a talk based on this article, "The political ecology of agricultural science and settler colonialism between the US and Palestine," virtually with the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department's Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights webinar series. It will be on May 3 at 8:00 AM PT. You can register for the Zoom webinar here.
An article based on my ethnographic dissertation research is published:
“Commodifying Indigeneity? Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in Fair Trade Farming in Palestine.” 2023. Historical Materialism 31 (2). Special issue: “Race and Capital.” Available open source as a preprint on the journal's website
I spoke about my article on the Historical Materialism podcast.
Additionally I have published an essay connecting Palestine and California:
“Displacement and Solidarity: Lessons from Palestine to California.” Insaniyyat: Society of Palestinian Anthropologists. November 6, 2020.
I am currently expanding on the themes of my dissertation through my book project, which explores the transnational connections between theorizing sustainability in Palestine and California.
I have multiple published and forthcoming publications based on my dissertation research.
An article based on my historical research connecting the settler colonization of California and Palestine through scientific agriculture is under review at Journal of Political Ecology. This paper is the award winner of the Political Ecology Society's Eric Wolf Paper Prize.
I am delivering a talk based on this article, "The political ecology of agricultural science and settler colonialism between the US and Palestine," virtually with the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department's Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights webinar series. It will be on May 3 at 8:00 AM PT. You can register for the Zoom webinar here.
An article based on my ethnographic dissertation research is published:
“Commodifying Indigeneity? Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in Fair Trade Farming in Palestine.” 2023. Historical Materialism 31 (2). Special issue: “Race and Capital.” Available open source as a preprint on the journal's website
I spoke about my article on the Historical Materialism podcast.
Additionally I have published an essay connecting Palestine and California:
“Displacement and Solidarity: Lessons from Palestine to California.” Insaniyyat: Society of Palestinian Anthropologists. November 6, 2020.
