Marcelo Svirsky is a Senior Lecturer at the School for Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong. He researches on questions of social transformation and subjectivity, decolonisation, settler-colonial societies and political activism. He focuses on the Middle East, particularly Israel-Palestine, and addresses these topics by drawing on continental European philosophy, particularly the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault. He has published several articles in the journals Cultural Politics, Subjectivity, Intercultural Education, Deleuze Studies, and Holy Land and Palestine Studies among others, and various books and edited collections: Deleuze and Political Activism (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine (Ashgate, 2012); Agamben and Colonialism with Simone Bignall (Edinburgh University Press, 2012); After Israel: Towards Cultural Transformation (Zed Books, 2014), and he recently edited a special issue of the Australian journal Settler Colonial Studies under the title Collaborative Struggles in Australia and Israel-Palestine.