What are the contradictions and uses of environmental conservation and land preservation in a settler colonial state? Like South Africa and the United States, the Israeli government has carved out large swaths of land for ecological protection — and the dispossession of native populations is often hidden from sight. Legal anthropologist Irus Braverman discusses the settler ecologies of Palestine-Israel.
Resources:
Irus Braverman, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel University of Minnesota Press, 2023