Settling Nature
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Settling Nature

The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel

  1. 362 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Settling Nature

The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel

About this book

A study of Palestine-Israel through the unexpected lens of nature conservation

 

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Settling Nature
  7. Chapter 1. Policing Nature: Beit Jann, the Green Patrol, and the Mount Meron Nature Reserve
  8. Chapter 2. Reintroducing Nature: Persian Fallow Deer, European Goldfinches, and Mountain Gazelles
  9. Chapter 3. Landscaping Nature: Jerusalemā€™s National Park System
  10. Chapter 4. Juxtaposing Nature: Wild Ass vs. Camel, Goat vs. Pine, Olive vs. Akkoub
  11. Chapter 5. Occupying Nature: The Wild West Bank and Wadi Qana Nature Reserve
  12. Chapter 6. Militarizing Nature: The Griffon Vulture and Israelā€™s Nature Defense Forces
  13. Conclusion: Unsettling Nature
  14. Notes
  15. Index
  16. About the Author