Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2013
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Abstract
Situated within fifty miles of each other at the heart of Israel-Palestine, three zoos — Jerusalem, Qalqilya, and Gaza — tell three very different stories about nonhuman animals, humans, and their imbricated survival across borders and at times of war. Through in-depth interviews with personnel from these three zoos, this article tracks the material and symbolic identities of three zoo animals. Yet the article is not just about animals; it is also a story about nationalism and its clandestine manifestations in ideologies of conservation. I argue here that alongside the straightforward story about sustaining wildlife, Israeli zoos’ control of zoo animals is a form of postcolonial ecology: an indirect penetration of the nation-state through nongovernmental means — and in the name of conservation.
Publication Title
Cultural Critique
First Page
122
Last Page
162
Required Text
This article was published as Irus Braverman, Animal Frontiers: A Tale of Three Zoos in Israel/Palestine, Cultural Critique, Number 85, Fall 2013, pp. 122-162. No part of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or distributed, in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photographic, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the University of Minnesota Press.
Recommended Citation
Irus Braverman,
Animal Frontiers: A Tale of Three Zoos in Israel/Palestine,
85
Cultural Critique
122
(2013).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/323
