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SUMMARY:CMES seminar: Palestine’s Managed Precarity: EU Governance\, the 
 Denial of Democratic Agency\, and the Foreclosure of Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Contact: lisa.strombom@svet.lu.se\n\nThis seminar presentation 
 examines Palestine as a paradigmatic case of the precarisation of politics
  and analyses the role of the European Union (EU) in stabilising this cond
 ition. It develops the concept of managed precarity to describe a situatio
 n in which political vulnerability is institutionalised through governance
  practices that sustain administrative functionality while constraining so
 vereignty and democratic agency. While Israel’s occupation constitutes t
 he primary structural driver of Palestinian precarity\, this presentation 
 focuses on how EU governance practices participate in the reproduction of 
 a depoliticised order of managed dependence. Drawing on more than 20 exper
 t interviews conducted in 2025\, alongside policy documents and secondary 
 literature\, the presentation will show how EU instruments translate norma
 tive commitments into stabilisation-oriented governance that prioritises i
 nstitutional continuity over political transformation. The analysis distin
 guishes between ontological insecurity and precarity\, arguing that EU pra
 ctices contribute to the transformation of the former into the latter. It 
 further demonstrates how this dynamic narrows the conditions for Palestini
 an resilience when understood as collective self-organisation and democrat
 ic agency. The Palestinian case thus illuminates broader tensions in liber
 al international governance between stability\, normativity\, and the fore
 closure of political futures.About&nbsp\;Michelle Pace is a Professor of i
 nternational politics with more than 27 years of experience across researc
 h\, higher education\, international collaboration\, and policy engagement
  in Europe and the Middle East.Her work focuses on conflict\, migration\, 
 democracy\, governance\, political violence\, refugee integration\, and EU
 –Middle East relations\, with particular expertise in the politics of pr
 otracted conflict and humanitarian crises. Across her academic and policy 
 work\, she seek to bridge rigorous research with practical engagement on s
 ome of the most pressing international challenges facing policymakers\, ci
 vil society actors\, and international institutions today. She is also a M
 ember of the Scientific Advisory Board\, Centre for Advanced Middle Easter
 n Studies\, Lund University\, Sweden.Coffee\, tea and pastries are served 
 after each seminar.Everyone is warmly welcome!\n\nMore information about t
 he event: https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-palestines-managed-
 precarity-eu-governance-denial-democratic-agency-and-foreclosure
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LOCATION:CMES seminar room\, Finngatan 16.
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