Gaza from the Sea
Gaza from the Sea
October 8 | 6:30 PM
大象传媒鈥檚 Downtown Campus | Harbour Centre, Room 7000
The genocide in Gaza has been perpetrated by way of land, air, and sea. In this conversation between Dr. Renisa Mawani and Parsa Alirezaei, the community is invited to consider processes of settler colonial domination and racial violence from the sea in Gaza and beyond.
Since the zionist settler colony鈥檚 inception, maritime infrastructures of colonial commerce and 鈥榟umanitarian鈥� aid, from occupied Haifa to the Gaza Marine, have concurrently extended imperial control in ways that have fragmented, displaced, and sought to destroy indigenous life. This conversation aimed to highlight the continuities of zionist settler colonialism in maritime Palestine - the heart of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea - as an integral, not incidental part of the zionist settler colonial project.
The conversation also touched on anticolonial resistance against the genocide in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
About the Speakers:
Renisa Mawani is Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories and Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, located on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam (x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m) peoples. From 2022-2025 she is a Global Professorial Fellow at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London.
Renisa is the author of Colonial Proximities (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize (2020) and winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History (2020). With Antoinette Burton, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (Duke University Press, 2020). With Antoinette Burton and Samantha Frost, she is co-editor of Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Life Worlds (2024) and with Kristie Flannery and Mikki Stelder, she is co-editor of Oceans as Archives (forthcoming in Routledge鈥檚 Ocean and Island Studies book series, 2025).
Renisa is currently working on a short book, The Laws of the Sea, which will be the inaugural volume in a new Cambridge Elements Series titled 鈥淟aw and Humanities鈥� and a longer monograph, Enemies of Empire, which will be a sequel to Across Oceans of Law.
Parsa Alirezaei is a research assistant at the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. Previously, he was an intern at the International Court of Justice and a researcher at Law for Palestine.