Making Death and Life in Palestine

Tithi Bhattacharya is a Marxist historian and activist, writing extensively on gender and the politics of Islamophobia. She has been active in movements for social justice throughout her life, spearheading campaigns across three continents. She is Professor of South Asian History at Purdue University and the author of Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, editor of Social Reproduction Theory and co-author of Feminism for the 99% which has been translated into over 30 languages. She is on the editorial board of Spectre, and lives in Indiana.   Susan Ferguson is Associate Professor Emerita at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Research Affiliate at the University of Houston. She is the author of Women and Work: Social Reproduction, Feminism and Labour. She serves on the editorial board of the webzine, Midnight Sun, and is a coordinating committee member of Scholars Against the War on Palestine and a member of Faculty for Palestine, Canada. She lives in Texas.  

Foreword - Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Introduction - Tithi Bhattacharya and Susan Ferguson

1. Gaza: Care, Hope and Genocide - Asmaa AbuMezied (Oxfam and Al-Shabaka Policy Network)

2. Childhood and social reproduction in Palestine: They didn’t know we were seeds - Mai Abu-Moghli (Centre for Lebanese Studies) and Rachel Rosen (University College London)

3. The Colonial Rift: Affirming Life in times of Ecocidal Warfare - Layal Ftouni (Utrecht University) and Omar Jabary Salamanca (Columbia University and Ghent University)

4. Anticolonialism as Class Struggle: An SRT Account - Tal-Hi Bitton (University of Oregon)

5. From “Selective Pronatalism” to “Genocide”: The Dialectics of Assisted Reproduction in Israel/Palestine - Siggie Vertommen (University of Amsterdam and Ghent University), Weeam Hammoudeh (Birzeit University), Michal Nahman (University of the West of England), and Rodante van der Waal (University of Humanistic Studies and independent midwife)

6. Scholasticide: Targeting Collective Life-making and Resistance - Susan Ferguson (Wilfrid Laurier University)

7. Checkpoints and the governance of social reproduction the West Bank - Jemima Repo (Newcastle University)

8. An Antiracist Feminist Politics of Elemental Needs - Françoise Vergès (University College London)

9. 'I Forgot to die:' Thinking through Social Reproduction of Palestinian Life - Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University)