Genocide and Imperialism

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This session examines Western imperialism, occupation, and genocide in Gaza and beyond. Thinking with scholars, writers, activists, and advocates such as Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Mahmood Mamdani, Noura Erakat, Susan Abulhawa, Mohammed El-Kurd, and Francesca Alabanese - to name but a few, it asks: what enduring connections are to be made between imperial policies and geopolitical alliances, colonialism, and genocidal violence in its manifold forms, including mass starvation, territorial expulsion, ecocide, urbicide, and scholasticide? What has shifted or intensified since 7 October, 2023? Finally, what emergent solidarities and strategies of resistance and self-determination on the part of Palestinians and other occupied peoples may be identified to build a more effective struggle for liberation?

Sub Unit

• Marxist Sociology Section / Genocide and Imperialism

Presider

• Nada Matta, Drexel University

Individual Presentations

• Disrupting epistemic hegemony: race, decolonial research in UK and Belgium universities - Elif Lootens; Bart Van de Putte; Peter A. J. Stevens, Universiteit Gent; Lili Schwoerer, London School of Economics

• Is the US's national sovereignty violation of Venezuela and other nations par for the course? - Vince Montes, Northeastern University

• Resistance consciousness and the people’s tribunal, 1945-1990 - Megan Manion, University of Minnesota

Session Organizer

• Jordanna Chris Matlon, American University