Struggling for time : environmental governance and agrarian resistance in Israel/Palestine / Natalia Gutkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutkowski, Natalia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs--Agriculture--Israel.

Palestinian Arabs.

Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Social conditions.

Agriculture and state--Israel.

Agriculture and state.

Time--Political aspects--Israel.

Time.

Power (Social sciences)--Israel.

Power (Social sciences).

Settler colonialism--Israel.

Settler colonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications. Traveling across both policymaking arenas and Palestinian citizens' agrarian fields, Gutkowski follows the multiple ways that state officials, agronomists, planners, environmentalists, and agriculturalists use time as a tool of collective agency. Through investigations of wetland drainage in Galilee, transformations in olive agriculture, sustainable agrarian development, and regulation of the shmita biblical commandment, the "year of release" for agricultural fields, this work highlights how Palestinian citizens' agriculture has become a site for the state to settle and mediate time conflicts to justify its existence. As Struggling for Time demonstrates, time politics will take on ever greater urgency as societies and governments plan for an uncertain future in our era of climate change.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Map of Fieldwork Sites in Israel/Palestine

Introduction

1. Draining the Swamp

2. Returning to the Seventh Year

3. Cultivating Time in an Olive Tree

4. Freeing Time Like a Palestinian Agronomist

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781503637733

1503637735