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[Article] Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology

July 15, 2026
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Malini Ranganathan

In their new paper, “Food as necropolitics: The starvation of Palestinian sovereignty and stakes of geopolitical ecology” School of International Service Associate Professors Garrett Graddy-Lovelace and Malini Ranganathan theorize the deliberate starvation of Gaza as “food-as-necropolitics” and argues that this forced famine clarifies the analytical stakes of the emerging field of geopolitical ecology.

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