Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: "Settler Ruralization and the Production of Agricultural Violence in the West Bank," with Oren Shlomo

Faculty and Grad Student Colloquium: 

"Settler Ruralization and the Production of Agricultural Violence in the West Bank," with Oren Shlomo, The Open University of Israel

Over the past two decades, Israel’s colonization practices in Area C of the West Bank have undergone a gradual yet high-impact change—from processes of urbanization, characterized by the establishment of quasi-gated communities (“settlements”), to processes of ruralization, marked by the expansion of predominantly “traditional” agricultural forms, such as shepherding outposts and vineyards. The lecture traces the emergence of this shift and its accompanying consequences: the development of new practices of state and settler land control and land appropriation; the consolidation of new forms of state–settler violence, which I term “agricultural violence”; and the large-scale dispossession of Palestinian peasants from Area C.

Dr. Oren Shlomo works in the fields of political geography, urban politics, urban–rural politics, and environmental politics within the context of ethnic and national conflicts. His primary area of research focuses on Israel/Palestine, with a particular emphasis on Israeli control over East Jerusalem and the West Bank and its implications for urban and environmental governance, as well as land related issues. He completed his Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University and subsequently held a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at The Open University of Israel.

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