Settler Colonial Urbanism(s) and Infrastructural Changes in Palestine
| Dates: | 15 September 2025 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Alumni, Current University students |
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A joint initiative between the GDI Students for Palestine group and the Global Urban Futures and Resource, Environment and Development research groups.
This hybrid session will focus on understanding the links between urban and infrastructural transformation and destruction in the face of the current genocide in Palestine, with a focus on settler colonialism, urban planning, and environmental justice.
Presentations
Prof Haim Yacobi: Architect and urban planner, Development Planning Unit, UCL:
In this presentation I aim to discuss settler colonial urbanism(s) in Palestine\Israel, while exploring the different spatial and political typologies developed during the last few decades. I will discuss how colonial planning has been used as a tool of social, demographic and spatial control and how Palestinian claims for the right to the city are meaningful political forms of protest. The presentation will refer to Palestinian cities (such as Lydda) that were transformed into “Jewish-Arab mixed cities”, to new “Jewish cities” that are going through a process of “Arabisation”, to Jerusalem as a neo-apartheid city, and to the current spatiocide of Gaza.
Chloe Chbat: PhD researcher from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), UoM
In this talk I will focus on the urban and infrastructural transformation that takes place in the unrecognized villages of the Naqab desert where Palestinian Bedouins are at the crux of a battle between recognition and unrecognition, legibility and illegibility, existence and non-existence in the face of Israeli settler colonial abuses.
This event is hybrid. If you wish to join online, please sign up via Zoom: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/cHQQgj_iTomKVWtV7udppw
Travel and Contact Information
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Hanson Room
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester
