I will have a very busy week at AAG 2026 and hope to see you there! If you are registered, please see the official program for exact times and locations of these events. If you're already registered, make sure you are logged in and you can see the times & locations for these panels behind the paywall of the official program.
Geographers for Justice in Palestine PanelsI am speaking on the first of our series of panels updating about our ongoing campaign work in the AAG on
Tuesday March 17. We have an incredible series of five sessions; I'd like to especially highlight our session on
"Resisting Scholasticide in Palestine" on March 18. We will also be launching our zine on the evening of March 17 -- to learn more about that event, make sure you're
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Field trip: "Homelands and Diasporas: Palestinian community-making in the Bay Area"On Saturday March 21 I am organizing a field trip to some amazing Palestinian community sites in the East Bay! The center of our field trip is a visit and private tour of "Imagine Jerusalem" exhibit in Oakland, part of the Endangered Palestinian Memories Project, a temporary art and historical exhibit that will highlight the oral histories and stories of Palestinian Jerusalem. Additionally, we will visit sites like murals and restaurants and hear from community organizers, chefs and food workers, and artists to explore diasporic place-making in the SF Bay Area through food and art. Field trip cost includes a delicious catered dinner. The exhibit will also have a grand opening for the general public; more information to be announced.
Please register! (Scroll down, it's the last one on the list.)
Author Meets Readers Panel: Paul Kohlbry's Plots and Deeds: Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in PalestineMy dear friend Paul's book just came out with Stanford University Press in February;
get your copy here! We will be having a collegial conversation about the book with colleagues from Palestinian studies, Indigenous studies, and critical agrarian studies on March 19.
Agrarian Racial Capitalism Paper SeriesI am organizing a series of three paper panels with my colleagues Rosalie Z. Fanshel (UC Berkeley) and Aaron Alvarado (UMN). Sessions will be on
Friday March 20; see session 1, 2, and 3. A short excerpt from the panel descriptions:
The origins and contours of “agrarian capitalism” is a central conceptual debate for geographers and other social scientists working in agrarian and rural studies. Simultaneously, scholars working in critical race and ethnic studies analyze geographical questions through the concept “racial capitalism.” Here, we name “agrarian racial capitalism” to spark dialogue at the intersection of these two conceptual spaces. Inspired by the work of Cedric Robinson, we are interested in the ways that capitalist processes not only “exaggerate regional, subcultural, and dialectical differences into ‘racial’ ones” (2020, 26) that were, and are, central to its development and functioning, but also in the ways such processes of differentiation are central in the production of foodstuffs, “cash crops,” and other commodities of and from the earth and land.
