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The Children of Genocide
This talk brings social reproduction theory to bear on genocide. Drawing on scholarship that understands genocide not as a single catastrophic event but as a process unfolding over time, we examine how efforts to destroy a group operate through sustained attacks on the conditions and labour that make possible the reproduction of life, culture, and community. Placing children and childrearing at the centre, the speakers show how the targeting of education, family life, language, and land has functioned as a core mechanism of attempted group destruction in both the Israeli genocide against Palestinians and the Canadian genocide against Indigenous peoples. Drawing on Mai Taha’s concept of “insurgent social reproduction,” the talk also highlights how everyday practices of care, domestic labour, and nurturing life—especially under conditions of occupation—can become acts of political resistance and struggle against colonial and genocidal violence.