I’m Bram J. De Smet, a researcher working at the intersection of settler-colonial violence, Indigenous survival, and political solidarity. My doctoral work developed the concepts of slow erasure and genocide by attrition, exploring how settler-colonial harm accumulates gradually through restrictions on land, movement, knowledge, and the body, grounded in ethnographic fieldwork in Palestine. My current postdoctoral research, Solidarity under Exhaustion, examines how activists sustain care and collective action through burnout and repression. Before all of this, I trained as a robotic engineer.
