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Orfalea Center Graduate Students
Farah Hamouda
Farah Hamouda

Departments

Sociology

Research Clusters

Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation

Affiliation Period

9/2024 - 6/2025

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Research Project
Melodies of Resistance: Palestinian Artists for Liberation
Research Description
My work on unsettling settler colonialism looks at the various forms of state-sponsored violence towards Indigenous populations around the world, including ecological violence, government-initiated censorship, and displacement. My research is situated within the social sciences concerned with Palestine, environmental justice, colonialism, indigeneity, media, and state violence. To uncover how Palestinian people across the world interpret resistance and anti-colonial philosophies, I will utilize qualitative methods to conduct content analysis of Palestinian media and literature. By centering Palestinian voices, I aim to illuminate the vibrant and evolving ways in which ideologies of resistance, liberation, autonomy, and decolonization are lived and expressed within the community.
Research Interests

Palestine; Music; Poetry; Resistance, art, land; Liberation.

Orfalea Center Productions
  • Multimedia Report & Playlist of Tracks: Melodies of Resistance: Palestinian artists for Liberation

Student Bio

Farah Hamouda (she/her) is a Sociology Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara with research interests in Palestine studies, environmental justice, colonialism, indigeneity, and media. Drawing from her lived experiences as a child of Palestinian immigrants, Farah is interested in unsettling settler colonial processes and state-sponsored violence towards Indigenous populations around the world, including ecological violence, government-initiated censorship, and displacement.

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​Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies

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Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara,

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