Bugging settler colonialism: Liron Shani, ‘Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers: Agricultural Infrastructure and the Challenge of Alien-Native Dichotomies in Israel/Palestine’, Cultural Anthropology, 38, 1, pp. 87-112 | settler colonial studies blog

Bugging settler colonialism: Liron Shani, ‘Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers: Agricultural Infrastructure and the Challenge of Alien-Native Dichotomies in Israel/Palestine’, Cultural Anthropology, 38, 1, pp. 87-112

26Feb23

Excerpt: I show agricultural infrastructure to be a political enterprise: it establishes hierarchical boundaries between communities and strengthens land control. It also establishes and maintains human–non-human boundaries, often resulting in compounding ecological harm. Yet a focus on the various dimensions of agricultural infrastructure within a given context of settler colonialism contributes a more nuanced approach than forcing dichotomous contrasts between alien versus native, settler versus local.

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