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« Toxic settler colonialism: Jianni Tien, Katherine Kenny, ‘A hydrological breakdown of containment logics: Toxic exposures, pollution, and waste in the waterways of settler-colonial Australia’, E: nature and Space, 2026

Veterinary settler colonialism: Irus Braverman, ‘Veterinizing the Settler State: Biopolitics, Care, and Killing in Palestine-Israel’, Medical Anthropology, 2026

21Jun26

Abstract: Drawing on three multispecies cases in Palestine-Israel – the fallow deer, the griffon vulture, and the free-roaming dog – this article depicts veterinary governance as constitutive of the settler state. Specifically, the article identifies three interrelated but distinct technologies of veterinary power: biopolitics, enacted through population management and selective reproduction; pastoral power, exercised through intimate care and detailed surveillance; and necropolitics, manifested in practices of extermination. The article argues that veterinization advances and naturalizes the state’s settler ecologies. In Palestine-Israel, this dynamic is especially visible in the state’s peripheral regions, in territories it has occupied since 1967, and along the Gaza border.

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