Ecocolonialism in Gaza and Palestine
A conversation led by Shourideh Molavi
(in EN – with AR translation available)
Shourideh Molavi’s final talk in the Echologies programme focuses on her seminal book Environmental Warfare in Gaza as well as the Forensic Architecture projects “No Traces of Life…” and Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza, both of which are featured in the Echologies DaDa exhibitions programme.
Molavi’s work on environmental justice in Gaza and Palestine reveals ecological domination and destruction as the foundational tool for the settler-colonial state and its warfare tactics. In deeply engaged relationships with farmers and landworkers, she evidences their roles as central as well as most at risk in the resistance movement whilst bringing questions of shifting eco imaginaries into sight for thinking about the future of Palestine.
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Shourideh C. Molavi is the lead Palestine researcher for Forensic Architecture, linking FA’s investigations to the work and research of civil society, grassroots groups and human rights defenders in the country. She is a scholar in political science and human rights and trained with a background in International Humanitarian Law. Shourideh has two decades of extensive academic, legal research, and fieldwork experience in the Middle East, specifically in Palestine/Israel, on the topics of human and minority rights, with an emphasis on the relationship between the law, violence and power.