FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Lecture
Irene Molina: The destruction of Gaza
Monday 11 November, 15:15 - 17:00
Niagara, NIA307, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1
Genocidal Settler Colonialism and Domicide – The destruction of Gaza
The long-lasting experience of settler colonialism in Palestine has since 7 October last year entered a genocidal phase in front of everyone’s eyes and consciousness. One especially interesting side of the genocide for us urban researchers (and academics in general) outside the suffering zone, it is the total destruction of infrastructure of the built environment, which gives a new meaning – maybe more dramatic than ever – to the concept of Domicide. In this seminar, we’ll be introduced to the context of this particular case of genocide and what we can do as urban researchers as well as why we should engage in it.
About the series
The lecture is part of Open Urban Seminars, organised in collaboration between the Department of Urban studies and the Institute for studies in Malmö’s history, Malmö universitet.
Practicalities
The lecture will be in English, but you can pose questions in Swedish. Everybody welcome.
About Irene Molina
Irene Molina is a Professor in Human Geography, settlement and the built environment working at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) at Uppsala University. Her research revolves around housing provision and the right to the city from the perspective of social justice, understood intersectionally, including race, class, gender and environmental justice. She is the coordinator of the Housing and Urban Justice Project at IBF. Her latest publication is as the editor, together with Jennie Gustafsson and Carina Listerborn at Malmö University, of the Special Issue Struggling for Housing Justice – New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, in the journal Housing, Theory and Society, 2024.
