Literary Interventions

Nature management and conservationism have often been employed as technologies of dispossession within settler colonial projects. This book examines the Zionist occupation of Palestine through the lens of nature administration under Israel’s conservation regime. Braverman explores how the Israeli state has used formal nature enclosures and legally enforced wildlife protection to dispossess Palestinian communities. Her analysis situates Israel’s nature management regime within the broader context of global settler colonial practices. 

Together, we will reflect on nature as a tool of settler colonialism and consider how “settler ecologies” shape landscapes of alienation. 

The Open Reading group is led by Mariangela Beccoi. The session will be held in English. We will support each other with translation, if necessary.