Territoriality and the Technics of Drylands Science in Palestine and North America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8967950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Omar Tesdell (0000-0002-5179-9532, Birzeit University, corresponding author), Omar Imseeh Tesdell |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 570-573 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743815000586 |
| OpenAlex | W2217763032 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 7 |
At the turn of the 20th century, agricultural experts in several countries assembled a new agro-scientific field: dryland farming. Their agricultural research practices concomitantly fashioned a new agro-ecological zone—the drylands—as the site of agronomic intervention. As part of this effort, American scientists worked in concert with colleagues in the emerging Zionist movement to investigate agricultural practices and crops in Palestine and neighboring regions, where nonirrigated or rainfed agriculture had long been practiced. In my larger manuscript project, I consider how the reorganization of rainfed farming as dryfarming is central to the history of both the Middle East and North America, where it was closely related to modern forms of power, sovereignty, and territoriality. I suggest that American interest in dryfarming science emerged out of a practical need to propel and sustain colonization of the Great Plains, but later became a joint effort of researchers from several emerging settler enterprises, including Australia, Canada, and the Zionist movement. In contrast to a naturally ocurring bioregion, I argue that the drylands spatiality was engineered through, rather than outside, the territorialization of modern power
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Biodiversity · Bioregion · Dryland farming · Environmental ethics · Geography · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sovereignty · Territoriality · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |