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This Week’s Focus: From Congresses to Authorities. Representation, leadership, and Palestinian politics beyond the nation-state.
Reading Group: Palestine(s): Rethinking Politics of Fragmentations
This reading group examines the political, geographic, economic, cultural, and linguistic fragmentations that have shaped Palestinian life over the past century, from the West Bank, Gaza, and the ’48 territories to the multiple Palestinian diasporas. By engaging with scholarship across history, political theory, and cultural studies, this reading group interrogates how these divisions have been produced, institutionalised, and normalised, and how they continue to shape Palestinian belongings, identities, and futures. Our aim is to consider both the unity that persists within fragmentation and the fragmentation that structures the very notion of Palestine.
Central Question: How are ideas of Palestine and Palestinian collective identity shaped, challenged, and rearticulated under conditions of fragmentation?
Structure: The group will convene biweekly throughout Hilary and Trinity Terms 2026, with each session lasting two hours
