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Dr Gala Rexer: Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel
Drawing on her recently published book, Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel (University of California Press, 2026), Rexer examines how Israeli settler-colonial policies shape Palestinian women's reproductive lives. Grounded in a Black feminist reproductive justice framework and more than two years of ethnographic research, the book explores hospitals and fertility clinics as sites through which reproductive care becomes entangled with state surveillance and demographic control. Her work invites us to consider how everyday encounters within medical institutions illuminate the relationship between reproductive injustice and settler colonialism.
Dr. Rexer is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Sociology at the University of Warwick.
All are welcome to attend. 
Part of the 2026–27 GSWS Visiting Speakers Series, with generous support from the GSWS Visiting Speakers' Fund and Elinor Gill Ratcliffe, C.M., O.N.L., LL.D. (h.c.), and co-sponsorship from the Department of Anthropology.