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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Sherene Seikaly yearns for what we can’t see: a world without genocide, ecocide or epistemicide
Description: Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She’s the editor of a number of academic journals, including the Journal of Palestine Studies. She’s also a policy member of Al-Shabaka and the Palestinian Policy Network. As a historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East, she has an overriding concern with how individuals, groups, and governments use concepts and material practices to shape the body, the self, and the other.
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