Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology. Researching social vaccines and cures for the colonial and ethno-national virus in the midst of the pandemic. Daily swimmer. Cook. Cabinetmaker. Grandfather.
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Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Jan 20
"On post-Genocidal futures: The bearable and the unbearable, the forgivable and the unforgivable"
Keynote that I'll be presenting at a conference on the possibility of co-existence in the Middle East at the University of Tokyo next month.
Keynote that I'll be presenting at a conference on the possibility of co-existence in the Middle East at the University of Tokyo next month.
Keynote address by Ghassan Hage - AAS Conference 2024
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My keynote to the Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference: Is Israel a racialised mercenary formation? url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/jvYJCK1qwB...
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 24
The Palestinian flag was ubiquitous at the rising tide blockade in Newcastle. It is becoming clear to activists that racist colonially-driven genocides and fossil fuel-driven ecocide have the same roots. An idea i fleshed out academically in my Is Racism an Environmental Threat?
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 22
I thought for a second: that’s nice. Then I thought: Imagine a Zionist reading this
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 22
despite the vagueness, imperfection and powerlessness of it all I am going to enjoy while I can this ICC decision that accuses of crimes against humanity one of the greatest sob that history has ever produced
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 22
immoral order of geo-political machinations governed by instrumental calculations. Despite these limitations it was important to have the ICC’s decisions as a moral horizon. There’s every indication that the Trump administration will try and destroy what is left of this order. So,
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 22
The ICC decision regarding Netanyahu and Gallant is the last vestige of an international order that allowed ideals of common sense decent morality (such as, it is not ok to kill thousands of children whatever your politics) to vaguely, imperfectly and powerlessly float over an
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 18
a foundational piece. But also realising how every page, indeed every paragraph, is so full of insights that help us make sense of our Gazan present.
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I opened the issue I remembered that it was also the issue which featured a translation of Achille's Necropolitics piece. In fact I hadn't really thoroughly read the piece since the time it appeared. So I started rereading it. And slowly I started remembering why it is such
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 18
this to my friend Achille Mbembe's notion of Necropolitics. I am writing something provisionally titled 'The not-so-postcolonial Arab in the shadow of Gaza.' I went back to my piece on Palestinian Suicide Bombers that appeared in Public Culture in 2003. and when
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I know it is inevitable, but I hate it when people reduce complex arguments I make over a a whole article or book into a single key idea, even if they do so to praise it. So, I feel totally mortified when I realise that I have done so to others. Today I realised the degree to which I have done
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 15
ideology it is not the views of people that are upside down it is their world that is upside down. And it is the world they live in that needs to be put back in order not their ideas of it.
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 15
office’s entrance, or painting a wall, or disrupting a ceremony than they are by an unfolding genocide. And they really think that it is the people demonstrating who are the ‘unreasonable’ ones. It is truely the case here that, as Marx argues, in
Ghassan Hage
@anthroprofhage.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Australian politicians, Labor and Liberal, are always more emotionally affected, ‘outraged’ and ‘furious’ by pro Palestinian demonstrators blocking a road, or their