Land Archives | Contending Modernities

Sovereignty, Land, and Religious Freedom: Barbara Sostaita Interviews Dana Lloyd

Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita
December 11, 2024December 16, 2024

Knowing that they are doomed to lose in a settler court, the Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa people are doing everything they can to protect the High Country as their kin.

A Letter to the President of Tel Aviv University

Khaled Furani
September 19, 2024September 30, 2024

Ultimately, when you fear violence that is against “the law” yet normalize the violence of “the law,” my safety is not the only casualty. Yours is too.

Reimagining Jewish Ethics and Politics in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Joshua S. Lupo
May 22, 2024September 30, 2024

Rather than sovereignty and domination, Manekin and Rosen argued that Jewish teachings require followers to side with the marginalized and oppressed.

Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures

Tristan Sturm
January 24, 2024February 1, 2024

This nationalism is religious at its core, sprung from a set of interpretations of the Bible that identifies the Jewish return to Israel as a prophetic sign of the imminence of the apocalypse.

Living on Indigenous Lands: (Re)Considering Relations with Occupied Lands

Series: Theories of Land

Abel R. Gomez
July 27, 2023January 25, 2024

Considering our relations and responsibilities to land invites us to make other choices, ones that might guide us, perhaps, towards being in good relations with the land and the Indigenous peoples of that place.

Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land

Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023February 1, 2024

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.