On Thursday, June 18, 2026, 10 – 12 am CEST, we will meet for a reading & discussion session of Natalia Gutkowski’s amazing book “Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine” (Stanford University Press, 2024).
We are very happy that Natalia Gutkowski herself will join the session and will also provide an intro to the book!
Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications.
Everybody is very welcome to join!
Thursday, June 18, 2026
10 – 12 am CEST
@ IfEE room 212 & on zoom
The IfEE is accessible, the room can be reached by lift, and accessible bathrooms are available.
We are preparing this reading session as a collaborative effort; everybody is invited to – of course – read the whole book, or also just pick chapters and parts and share reading impressions, comments, and questions in a joint proton pad.
Participation is, of course, also possible without preparation!
For further information and access to the collaborative doc, the book, Zoom link, etc., please write to Elisabeth Luggauer (elisabeth.luggauer@hu-berlin.de).