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‘Olympics Without Apartheid’ in Rio: Brazilian-Palestine Solidarity Against Israeli Securitization
Fri, Nov 11, 12:30 to 1:45pm, Palais des Congrès, 520A (LCD)Abstract
The Olympics are a form of ‘roving coloniality’ that imposes a state of emergency in the host city that legitimizes land theft, forced evictions, incarceration, pacification and surveillance of poor, racialized and indigenous communities. The paper gives a decolonial analysis of securitization at the 2016 Rio Olympics, mapping the racial-colonial logics underpinning the transnational flow of militarized settler colonial technologies and expertise between Israel and Brazil. Brazilian-Palestine solidarity in the BDS movement against Israeli securitization has led to the call for a sport boycott for an ‘Olympics Without Apartheid’ in Rio 2016.