The “No-State Solution”: Power of Imagination for the Palestinian Struggle
<p>This conversation with Sophia Azeb is the first of a series recorded along the American and Canadian West Coast. Sophia and I talk about our frustrations to see the lack of imagination offered by the “solutions” (a highly problematic term) often given to end what remains problematic to call “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” In opposition to the traditional “two-state solution” and “one-state solution,” Sophia proposes a “no-state solution,” that refuses the recognition of any property on the land and thus, state-sovereignty. We talk about the land being practiced by the bodies, and the bodies being fragments of the land, through a corpus of anti-colonial poetry. Finally we address science fiction as a provider of narratives whose imaginative power can have important political impact in the construction of a collective future.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Sophia Azeb
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast