ABOUT THE BOOK

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.

AuthORS

Adam Hanieh is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and a Research Fellow at the Transnational Institute (tni.org). He is the author of a number of books on Middle East politics, oil, and capitalism, including Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books, 2024).

Rob 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.

Rafeef Ziadah is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies). She is co-editor (with Brenna Bhandar) of the book Revolutionary Feminisms (Verso press 2020). Her research focuses broadly on political economy, gender and race, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa. She has worked as researcher and campaigns organiser with a number of refugee rights and anti-poverty NGOs.

discussantS

• Nora Jaber, Lecturer in Law in the Globalised Muslim World, University of Edinburgh
• Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Professor of Law and co-Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies, University of Warwick

moderator

Praggya Surana, PhD candidate in international law, Geneva Graduate Institute

This book launch is co-hosted by the Global Governance Centre, the International Law Department and the Centre for Law and Social Change at SOAS.

This event is part of the ‘Law by Colour Code: Locating Race and Racism in International Law’ project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)