Resisting erasure in Palestine

We are very happy to launch this essential book by renown academics and activists Adam Hanieh, Rob Knox and Rafeef Ziadah.

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. It is, in short, an essential introduction for anyone looking to understand what Palestine reveals about the world – and what it demands of us today.

Speakers: Authors Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah in conversation with Luca di Mambro (student organiser and former Students' Union President).

Chair: Sara Farris (Sociology)

The event is organised in collaboration with members of the Sociology Department and the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths University of London.

About the authors.

Adam Hanieh is a Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His current research focuses on oil and capitalism, energy transitions, and the political economy of the Middle East. Before Resisting Erasure, he has published five books, the most recent of which is Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso Books 2024). My third book, Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and was awarded the 2019 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize.

Robert Knox is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. He focuses on the relationship between capitalism, imperialism, and international law, offer­ing a critical perspective on how these forces interact and influence global and regional conflicts.

Rafeef Ziadah is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies). Her research focuses broadly on political economy, gender and race, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa. She holds a PhD in Politics from York University, Canada. Previously she was a Lecturer in the Politics and International Studies department, SOAS University of London and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the 'Military Mobilities and Mobilising Movements in the Middle East' project. This ESRC funded project explored the politics of transport infrastructures in the Arabian Peninsula and culminated in the production of the website Sinews of War and Trade. Rafeef is co-editor (with Brenna Bhandar) of the book Revolutionary Feminisms (Verso press 2020).