What Encampments for Palestine Teach Us About Epistemic Justice

Dr. Katherine Blouin is Associate Professor of History and Classics in the departments of Historical and Cultural Studies and Classics, University of Toronto. Her work centres on socio-economic and environmental history, with a focus on ancient, and particularly Roman, Egypt, as well as on the ethics and (de)colonial entailments of Antiquity-related fields. She is the author of the book Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule, and the editor of the volume The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period, and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Potscolonial Theory. She is also the co-founder and lead editor of Everyday Orientalism.

Dr. Girish Daswani is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include Ghana, religion, transnationalism, post/colonialism, activism, and the University. Dr. Daswani has a monograph entitled Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost (2015, University of Toronto Press) and co-edited (with Ato Quayson) the Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies (2013, Wiley-Blackwell). His work and public-facing scholarship have explored the ways in which imperialism, colonialism, and Orientalism have impacted (and are still impacting) the University, popular politics, and Anthropology.