InsurgenSeas

In this episode of InsurgenSeas, we sit down with Daniel Powers, Lizzie Malcolm, and Stefanos Levidis to explore how the sea is being remapped from below. Our conversation moves through the Flotilla Tracker as a tool of maritime activism: who builds and uses it, who it serves, and how it circulates within networks of solidarity. We trace the origins and ambitions of Forensic Architecture, unpackin...

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In this episode, Kostas Fourikos, a filmmaker and activist, speaks to us aboard the Greek ship of the Sumud Flotilla, sailing south of Crete on its way to Gaza. His life’s work moves between cinema, cultural organizing, and political struggle and on this ship, all of these threads meet. We discuss the flotilla as a refusal of siege, borders, occupation, and genocide. From a country whose governmen...

Dr. David Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow whose recent work has illuminated the radical geographies of solidarity, resistance, and internationalism. Building on Doreen Massey’s legacies, he has published widely on political ecologies, labor histories, and transnational movements, including co-editing Doreen Massey: Selected Political Writings (2022...

In this episode, Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos is joined by historian Dr. Isa Blumi and student Dina Al Amood for a powerful conversation on the Yemeni embargo in the Red Sea as an act of maritime solidarity in support of Gaza and Palestine. Dr. Blumi explores the dynamics of the Yemeni embargo on the Red Sea, positioning it within a longer history of indigenous resistance and maritime autonomy. The c...

Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, political anthropologist, associate professor at the American University of Beirut, amateur sailor and host of the InsurgenSeas project, sets the stage for a new conversation about oceans and the politics of oceanic change. Drawing from decades of research and activism around the sea, he reflects on how the sea is often seen either as an empty space, a state-controlled b...

In this episode, Dr. Nikolas Kosmatopoulos joined by student Roua Chakaroun speaks with Mrs. Huwaida Arraf, Palestinian-American lawyer, activist, and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. Known for her work organizing the Gaza Freedom Flotillas, civilian ships that challenged the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, Arraf reflects on the political force of collective action at sea. The...