New Book Studies Nature Conservation in Palestine-Israel Through Lens of Settler Colonialism

Irus Braverman, Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (US: University of Minnesota Press, 2023).

Abstract: Settling Nature draws on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork to document how the administration of nature in Palestine-Israel advances the Zionist project of Jewish settlement alongside the corresponding dispossession of non-Jews from this space. Highlighting the violent repercussions of Israel’s conservation regime, Braverman plants the seeds for possible reimaginings of nature that transcend the grip of the state’s settler ecologies.