In this interview for STATUS/الوضع, host Noura Erakat interviews Nicola Perugini about his newly co-authored book The Human Right to Dominate.
Nicola Perugini is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University. He has been assistant Professor at and Director of the Human Rights Program at the Al Quds Bard College (Jerusalem, Palestine), and taught at the Department of International Relations of the American University of Rome. He is the author (with Neve Gordon) of The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has published articles on embedded anthropology, asylum seekers, humanitarianism, politics of the gaze, law and spatial practices, human shields and the history of violence, settler colonialism and trauma. Perugini collaborates with DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Resdiency, Beit Sahour, Palestine) and has collaborated with the research project "Forensic Architecture" (Goldsmiths, University of London, project funded by the European Research Council). From 2010 to 2012 he has worked as a consultant for Unesco in Palestine and he is the co-recipient of the 2011 Meila Mercouri International Prize the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes.
The interview is divided into three parts which you can click on separately. Please find a transcript of the interview below the player.
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