Ya Falastin
Networks of Resistance Against the Economy of Genocide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7514099 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milica Kočović De Santo (0000-0003-3304-7801, Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 108-132 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10455752.2025.2607978 |
| OpenAlex | W7117995187 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
This work offers a radical ecological reading of Palestine as a more-than-human subject. What pedagogies emerge when we listen to olive roots, children's voices, poets addressing land as sentient witness? Using the Tree of Life and Death as a methodological metaphor, I trace how pluriversal relational pedagogies form counter-metabolism against capitalism's parasitic logic. The Tree framework structures analysis: roots hold pre-monotheistic ontologies where earth and body remain inseparable; branches express steadfastness, care, and reciprocity; mycorrhizal networks sustain life while sharing soil with Armillaria – capitalism feeding on death. I map three necro-economic patterns: epistemicide (killing the word “genocide”), economy of genocide ($225 billion through arms/tech/finance), and ecocide (one million olive trees as temporal annihilation). Palestinian voices persist as epistemologies. When poets address “Ya Falastin,” land becomes a listening subject – trees witness, roots remember, soil responds – these are not testimonies but theory. Counter-hegemonic processes that allow the forest of life to survive depend on unlearning growth ideology and cultivating global solidarities rooted in collective refusal
Active listening · Capitalism · Genocide · Ideology · Nexus (standard · Reading (process · Resistance (ecology · Tree of life (biology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Designs for the Pluriverse
Body Politics in Development
A World of Many Worlds
Beyond Nature and Culture
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Slow violence and toxic geographies
Ontological Conflicts and the Stories of Peoples in Spite of Europe
Making a Killing
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality
Ch'ixinakax utxiwa
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Necropolitics
Degrowth and critical agrarian studies
Revolutionary process, political strategy, and the dilemma of power
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |