Empire’s Laboratory: ‏الأرض اللي بطعمي The land that feeds

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Zionism in the destruction of land and resources in Guatemala and Indigenous resistance efforts.

In this episode, Alex and Lara talk with Danya Nadar about the ways Zionism is implicated in the ongoing destruction and plunder of land and resources in Guatemala, especially through imported land-based practices and irrigation technologies, and the ways that Indigenous people continue to resist. Bio: Danya Nadar is an Egyptian-Canadian PhD candidate affiliated with the Institute of Development Policy (IOB) at the University of Antwerp since 2020. From 2009, Danya worked as a documentary film and news producer focusing on social and political economy topics in North Africa and east of the Mediterranean, and where she is also part of the revolutionary media collective mosireen.org . In 2018 she switched careers to pursue her passion, conducting research alongside Indigenous peasant farmers. She was a research fellow (2019-2020) at the International Development Research Centre in Canada which allowed her to continue the research she had started in occupied Palestine (2018-2019) on ancestral knowledges related to seeds, land tenure, gendered social dynamics, and alternative/parallel food networks. Her current research looks at the interconnected ways food is weaponized by…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alex, Lara

Guest: Danya Nadar

Topics covered

• Zionism
• land destruction
• Indigenous resistance
• agriculture
• colonization
• food systems

Keywords

• Zionism
• Guatemala
• Indigenous people
• land practices
• irrigation technologies
• food weaponization
• ancestral knowledges

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institute of Development Policy, mosireen.org

Places: Guatemala, Palestine, Ch’orti’ territories, North Africa, Mediterranean

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