Book launch: 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine'
Key information
- Date
- Time
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6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS University of London
- Room
- Senate Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT), Paul Webley Wing
- Event type
- Launch
About this event
Chair: Dina Matar, Centre for Palestine Study advisory board member SOAS
Abstract
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 volume for anyone looking to understand what Palestine reveals about the world – and what it demands of us today.
Speakers
Professor Adam Hanieh is Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute, MBI Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies, and Professor in Political Economy and Global Development, SOAS, University of London. His recent book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso 2024), was co-winner of the 2025 Best Book by an International Scholar, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association.
Dr Robert Knox is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and the London Review of International Law. He has specific expertise on public international law, particularly on its relationship to race and empire; public law, with a focus on its relationship to neoliberalism, and legal theory, especially critical and Marxist approaches to the law.
Dr Rafeef Ziadah is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Politics and Public Policy in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Her research sits at the intersection of political economy, infrastructure studies, and critical development theory, with a particular focus on transport infrastructures, logistics, and labour regimes in the Middle East and East Africa. She is co-editor, with Brenna Bhandar, of Revolutionary Feminisms (Verso Books, 2020), a collection that re-centres feminist praxis within anti-colonial and anti-capitalist struggle.
Image: Jaber Jehad Badwan, Wikimedia Commons
