Breakfast at UUniCORN: Eternally uprooted – Lived experiences of forced displacement in Gaza

In conflict-affected areas, militarised violence results in compounded dynamics and layers of violence, domination, and dispossession that shape forms of human mobility. Forms such as migration, displacement and resettlement. An urgent, yet under-explored case of this is Gaza.

In her study, Zeina Moneer foregrounds the narratives of internally displaced Palestinians in Gaza, illuminating how they make sense of, interpret, and endure violence at the intersection of forced displacement, armed conflict, and climate-related disasters. Against this backdrop, she captures the lived experiences of those displaced in a militarised ecology where environmental and political systems collide to make geographies increasingly unlivable.

The study addresses a critical gap in existing scholarship, which has tended to privilege the mapping of spatial and structural violence over the fine-grained, narrative accounts of those directly affected; those navigating and living within such protracted conditions of displacement.

About the speaker
Zeina Moneer is an Egyptian academic and senior climate practitioner specialising in environmental politics, climate justice, and policy engagement in the MENA region.

Currently, she is a senior scholar/ visiting fellow to the Nordic Africa Institute, NAI.

UUniCORN is part of Uppsala University Future Institutes, UUniFI.

To receive breakfast at the seminar. please register by Tuesday, 27 January

You are, of course, welcome to just show up, but in that case, we cannot guarantee that there will be sandwiches left.