This session will explore the politics of water in Palestine/Israel, with a focus on the falls of rain. Where water is governed by an occupying power, rain can index the extremes of infrastructural control, just as it can reveal its limits, holding possibilities beyond the state, recalling other ways. By following these waters, I will trace the forms of political violence and partial sovereignty that surface in the governance of life under intensifying settler colonial rule, in the shadow of genocide and ecocide, and unsettling seasonal rains, to consider overlooked nodes of accountability, political imaginaries, and practices of ongoing repair.
Photo: Emilie Glazer (2020)
Emilie Glazer is an anthropologist whose research explores care, justice, and political violence in the changing ecologies of the climate crisis. Her PhD, completed at University College London and supported by the Wellcome Trust, traced the affective politics of water infrastructure across the city of Jerusalem and beyond its borders. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Emilie has served as lecturer in Social Anthropology at King’s College London since 2025, and has taught at University of Oxford, University College London, and the Royal College of Art.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
10 – 11:30 am CEST
on Zoom!
For further information and the Zoom link, please write to Milena Bister (milena.bister@hu-berlin.de)
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Everybody is very welcome to join!
The talks/inputs will be in English, and questions can, of course, also be asked in German!