**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
❗️There will also be lunch with the speaker on the same day prior to the colloquium @12:30pm in room 51A❗️
What can property teach us about Palestine, and what can Palestine teach us about property? For activists and critical scholars of settler colonialism, property is often theorized as a form of power that erases Indigenous rights, history and presence. This talk will suggest a different starting point. By telling the stories of how property is part of the lives and struggles of Palestinian refugees, surveyors, lawyers, villagers, and women, it will explore how settler colonialism separates property claims from property relations. Foregrounding separation allows us to track the collapsing boundaries between “social” and “national” questions, how liberal norms become embedded in anti-colonial politics, and whether, at a time of seemingly lawless plunder and genocidal war, critiques of law and property still matter at all.
