Book ID: CBB991986388

Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (2023)

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Irus Braverman (Author)


University of Minnesota Press


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 362
Language: English

Settling Nature documents the widespread ecological warfare practiced by the state of Israel. Recruited to the front lines are fallow deer, gazelles, wild asses, griffon vultures, pine trees, and cows—on the Israeli side—against goats, camels, olive trees, hybrid goldfinches, and akkoub—which are affiliated with the Palestinian side. These nonhuman soldiers are all the more effective because nature camouflages their tactical deployment as such.​ Drawing on more than seventy interviews with Israel’s nature officials and on observations of their work, this book examines the careful orchestration of this animated warfare by Israel’s nature administration on both sides of the Green Line. Alongside its powerful protection of wildlife biodiversity, the territorial reach of Israel’s nature protection is remarkable: to date, nearly 25 percent of the country’s total land mass is assigned as a park or a reserve. Settling Nature argues that the administration of nature advances the Zionist project of Jewish settlement and the corresponding dispossession of non-Jews from this space.

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Authors & Contributors
Kent H. Redford
Dan Tsahor
Galia Plotkin-Amrami
Sigrid Vertommen
Ronald W. Zwieg
Fredrik Meiton
Concepts
Judaism
Science and religion
Ecology
Science and politics
Zionism
Public health
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Palestine
Israel
Middle and Near East
Georgia (Republic)
Jerusalem
Romania
Institutions
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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