Chana Rose Rabinovitz

CHANA ROSE RABINOVITZ, then a graduate student at Queen Mary University, London, United Kingdom, was approved funding in April 2024 to aid research on “Jewish Land-Based Communities: Diasporism as a Political Movement,” supervised by Dr. Clive Gabay. This dissertation contributes to discussions in queer decolonial literature on the role of futurity and imaginaries in leftist political organizing in the current moment of climate collapse, resurgent authoritarianism in the West, and ongoing genocide in Palestine. Taking “Jewish diasporism” as a space of praxis of such imaginaries, this research examines the inherent tensions that arise in communities claiming diasporism and seeking rootedness, with particular attention to the limitations presented by the material realities structured by settler colonialism and racial capitalism. Wenner-Gren support funded three research trips to the US to conduct in-person interviews and participant observation at various field sites, a two-week trip to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and a Photovoice research project with 16 participants from around the US and UK.