"Endless Siege" at University of Cambridge "Military Surplus" series March 13

On Thursday 13 March at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET/5 PM GMT, I'll be delivering a short talk alongside Dr. Omar Jabary Salamanca. The talk abstract is below. Thank you to the Military Surplus: Toxicity Industry and War network within the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at University of Cambridge for bringing me for this talk. 
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Gabi Kirk
‘Ecological Crisis as Structure: The Long Siege of Jenin’

Long considered the breadbasket of Palestine, Jenin’s role in agrarian production for local and global markets has been shifted and constrained by a series of imperial and settler colonial powers. Before and after October 7, 2023, the villages and hinterlands of the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank were and remain under siege from Israel’s occupation and ongoing Nakba. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and historical archival research, I ask, what is the temporality and spatiality of life under siege in Jenin? How do farmers and rural denizens navigate the siege that is enacted through and on their social and ecological worlds, and what do they dream of when the siege ends? The long siege of Jenin challenges a binary of “slow” vs. spectacular violence. Finally, I analyze the power and the pitfalls of recent abstractions of Palestine as a harbinger of eco-apartheid and “sieges to come” for our political movements.