Bonfire on the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: towards emancipatory and activist scholarship
April 24th, 2025, 18:30 CET, via Zoom
In “Colonial Control and the Politics of Fear: Surveillance, Necrocapitalism, and the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation: A Reading Series on Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian”, we came together to read and discuss the powerful work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian—rooted in liberation, anti-colonialism, and the enduring resilience of Palestinian communities under Israeli occupation. Through her scholarship, we were invited into deep and urgent conversations around colonial and state violence, necrocapitalism, militarization and surveillance, gendered and childhood trauma, resistance and resilience, and the radical possibilities of anti-colonial theory and liberation.
Continuing from these themes, this bonfire is meant to provide an informal space to discuss how activism is a core component to NSK’s scholarship. We invite you to gather and ponder with us questions around what does it mean to take seriously the activism embedded in this work? How does this work inform our own activism/scholarship? How do we read Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s scholarship outside occupied East Jerusalem—across Palestine, and in other interconnected sites of struggle? And what tools does this work offer us to name, to confront, and to resist the logics of dispossession, violence, and fear that echo across geographies?
Join us for a bonfire as we collectively share, process, think through, and make sense of these and other questions this moment brings up. As always, the bonfire is an open-format, informal space for discussion and collective meaning-making.
This session is part of our ongoing series of solidarity teach-ins & conversations for Palestine.
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