Bodies that count

Administering multispecies in Palestine/Israel's borderlands

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4464744
AutoresNatalia Gutkowski (0000-0003-2989-926X)
Año2021
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas135-157
Fecha de publicación2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2514848620901445
OpenAlexW3002316745
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas55

Nonhuman bodies in many sizes and diverse social roles are central to Israel's control mechanism in the Occupied West Bank. Delving into the agricultural record of the Israeli Civil Administration, I ask how the Israeli system of control operates through animal bodies. What does a bureaucratic record so invested in monitoring animals' production, treatment, disease, and death tell about the potential disruption of power? Through a political ecology of human-animal entanglement, I argue that nonhuman bodies both reproduce human colonial relations and allow their constant interruption. Nonhumans challenge the power regime through their unpredictable mobility as well as in their role as both objects of a political economy and subjects of potential agricultural diseases, ecological risks, or public health threats. Breaking from contemporary multispecies scholarly literature's focus on endangered species and relations of care, I place nonhuman bodies as actors of international-interspecies relations in colonial conditions and point to nonhumans, which are here to stay in the climate change era. By doing so, I reflect on the continuous significance of nonhuman bodies to the operation of power in the "borderlands" of Israel/Palestine and beyond

Biology · Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Palestine · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology · History · Law