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Date and Time

18th January 2022

Location

Online

Speakers
  • Abeer M. Butmeh
  • Hamza Hamouchene
  • Sam Siva
  • Orsod Malik

Our #ReconstructionWork online conversation series continues with another special event with support from Arts Council England.

Land both contributes and is affected by climate change. It is the frontlines of the climate crisis where livelihoods, resources and inherited knowledge are fought for against industrial extraction, the militarism of imperial ventures, and colonialism’s erasure of indigenous epistemologies. This conversation asks how land is central to efforts to both deepen and circumvent the crisis?


For this next #ReconstructionWork event the Stuart Hall Foundation will welcome three leading climate activists: Abeer M. Butmeh , Dr Hamza Hamouchene and Sam Siva to share their experiences, imaginings and reflections around land and the climate crisis.

This event will take place online and closed captions will be provided.

Part of our Contextualising Climate Crisis series.

Speakers

Abeer M. Butmeh

Abeer M. Butmeh, is water and environmental engineer, currently, she is the coordinator of PENGON-Foe Palestine. She is a leading woman activist in Palestine and an alliance of environmental justice organizations in Palestine. Abeer works closely with affected communities, the youth sector and with local government councils in addressing the environmental problems faced by the Palestinian people.  She has various skills in campaigning, coordination, communication and facilitation between deferent bodies with more than 10 years’ experience in this area. She has strong skills in institutional development, monitoring and evaluation procedures, financial management, program and project management, and procurement procedures. She is a researcher in different environmental topics mainly in water and climate change, she is a trainer in different environmental subjects; water, wastewater and environmental issues. She also is an active member in many Social and environmental networks at local and international levels.

Hamza Hamouchene

Dr Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA) and the North African Food Sovereignty Network (NAFSN). He is currently the North Africa Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI). His work is focused on issues of extractivism, resources, land and food sovereignty as well as climate, environmental, and trade justice in North Africa. He is the author/editor of two books: “The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb” (2017) and The Coming Revolution to North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice (2015). He also contributed book chapters to various books including “A Region in Revolt: Mapping the Recent Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia” (2020), “The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism” (2016) and “Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon” (2014). His other writings have appeared in Africa Is A Country, the Guardian, Middle East Eye, Counterpunch, New Internationalist, Jadaliyya, openDemocracy, ROAR magazine, Pambazuka, Nawaat, El Watan and the Huffington Post.

Sam Siva

Sam Siva is a writer, grower and organiser with Land In Our Names and the Right to Roam campaign. They are passionate about liberation through healing, creativity and collaboration. 

Orsod Malik

Orsod Malik is the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Executive Director. He is a UK-based Sudani curator, cultural producer and digital strategist. Orsod’s research-based curatorial practice focuses on identifying cultural and political entanglements in archival materials to explore possible shared histories. He has played a leading role in the development of the Foundation’s programmes and communications strategies since 2020, while also holding the position of Curator and Digital Strategist at the International Curators Forum (ICF) from 2021-2024.