Olive Growing in Palestine: Stories of everyday resistance
BOOK LAUNCH: Olive Growing in Palestine: Stories of everyday resistance
Palestinian researcher Juman Simaan’s book follows the lives of four families and dozens of individuals in the West Bank who grow olives as both livelihood and resistance.
This groundbreaking work sheds light on the indigenous Palestinian concepts of Sutra, ‘Awna and Sumud, and the ways in which these shape how olive farmers resist in everyday ways and in concert with each other, with international supporters, and with the more-than-human world against the forces seeking to divorce them from their land and their trees.
These grassroots Palestinian ways of doing, being and becoming bring communities, activists and scholars new tools to counter global forces of discrimination, imperialism, white supremacy and the human-made climate crisis.
Juman Simaan is a Palestinian who lives in Glasgow. He is an Associate Professor of occupational therapy at Edinburgh Napier University. Juman is interested in understanding the everyday lives and daily resistance of Global South communities, and people who are marginalised by structural forces such as the nation state, capitalism, racism and trans and homophobia.
With a special guest joining the event online: Mahmoud Soliman, Palestinian activist-scholar-farmer, who will be joining us online to discuss the current daily lives of farmers and shepherds in the West Bank of Palestine.
