Book Talk: Resisting Erasure; Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine
Bush House North East Wing, Strand Campus, London
Please join the Department of International Development at KCL for a book talk with Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah about their new book "Resisting Erasure; Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine"
About the talk
About Resisting Erasure from Verso:
A materialist analysis of the links between global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression in Palestine
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?
Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler-colonialism within the broader historical arc of imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism in the Middle East.
Resisting Erasure is a succinct and far-reaching critique of the socio-economic and political forces that sustain the Israeli settler-colonial project. An essential introduction for anyone looking to understand what Palestine reveals about the world – and what it demands of us today.
About the speakers
Professor Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh is a Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His current research focuses on oil and capitalism, energy transitions, and the political economy of the Middle East. Before Resisting Erasure, he has published five books, the most recent of which is Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books 2024). My third book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was awarded the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize.
Robert Knox
Robert Knox is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. He focuses on the relationship between capitalism, imperialism, and international law, offering a critical perspective on how these forces interact and influence global and regional conflicts.
Dr. Rafeef Ziadah
Rafeef Ziadah is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies). Her research focuses broadly on political economy, gender and race, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa.
She holds a PhD in Politics from York University, Canada. Previously she was a Lecturer in the Politics and International Studies department, SOAS University of London and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the 'Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East' project. This ESRC funded project explored the politics of transport infrastructures in the Arabian Peninsula and culminated in the production of the website Sinews of War and Trade. Rafeef is co-editor (with Brenna Bhandar) of the book Revolutionary Feminisms (Verso press 2020).
About the Interrogating Development Seminar Series
The 'Interrogating Development' seminar series is organised by the Department of International Development at King's College London. The series examines some of the most pressing issues of development facing global society today, with the authors of new books presenting cutting-edge research on a variety of topics related to development.
The talk will be followed by a wine reception. The event is open to everyone.
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies)
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