Irus Braverman

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Irus Braverman is a legal scholar and ethnographer, and is a professor of law and an adjunct professor of geography at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). [1] She was born in Jerusalem.

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Education and career

Irus Braverman trained in law and criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In Israel, Braverman served as a public state prosecutor and as an environmental lawyer, before becoming a community organizer for environmental justice issues and a political activist.

Braverman wrote her doctorate in law about the politics of tree planting and uprooting in Israel/Palestine, which she later transformed into a book entitled Planted Flags: Trees Law, and Law in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2009). She has been an associate with the Humanities Center at Harvard University, a visiting fellow with the Human Rights Program at Harvard University Law School, and a junior fellow with the Center of Criminology at the University of Toronto, among others. [2]

For 2013-14 Braverman was appointed a residential fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities, and in 2014 was a fellow of the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) as a Ryskamp Grantee. In the summers of 2017 and 2018 she was a residential fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Most recently, in the fall of 2021, she was the Hurford Family Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

Braverman's scholarship focuses on "the imbrications between law, space, and power, with an emphasis on materiality." [1] Her work explores the tensions between governance and natural and unnatural environments, including zoos, public toilets, and tree landscapes. [1]

Braverman's book Zooland: The Institution of Nature (Stanford University Press, 2012) was awarded the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) bronze medal in the category of Current Events. [3]

Other books and edited volumes include Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Zooland: The Institution of Nature (Stanford University Press, 2012), The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (Stanford University Press, 2014), Wild Life: The Institution of Nature (Stanford University Press, 2015), Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities (Routledge, 2016), Gene Editing, Law, and the Environment: Life Beyond the Human (Routledge, 2017), Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink (University of California Press, 2018), and Blue Legalities: The Laws and Life of the Sea (Duke University Press, 2020).

Literary production

Braverman's first monograph, House Demolitions in East Jerusalem: 'Illegality' and Resistance (The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, 2006, Hebrew), focuses on the contribution of planning laws and regulations applied in East Jerusalem toward discriminatory practices. Her second monograph, Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2009), describes land and identity struggles in Israel/Palestine through the acts of planting and uprooting trees. [4]

For Braverman's third book, Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (Stanford University Press, 2012), she conducted interviews with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to write an ethnography of zoo administration. [5] Donna Haraway calls Zooland, "Beautifully written, finely researched, [and] astutely argued, . . . offer[ing] a wealth of stories, data, and views to understand the potent work of zoos and their life-propagating messiness, astonishing technologies, and detailed ordering of their captive subjects deemed wild." [6] Stephen Cave at Financial Times notes Zooland "illustrates how there is nothing natural about the lives of zoo animals." [7]

Braverman's most recent monograph, Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink (University of California Press, 2018), contains interviews with more than 100 marine biologists about coral scientists' attempts to save corals and their marine ecosystems. Shortly after its publication, Coral Whisperers garnered considerable attention. Environmental journalist Elizabeth Kolbert featured it in her discussion about the existential crisis of our time in the New Yorker, [8] and filmmaker and historian Iain McCalman reviewed it in the May 2019 issue of The Times Literary Supplement. [9]

Braverman has published numerous essays on law, space, and the politics of nature, [10] including "The Tree is the Enemy Soldier" in Law and Society Review (2008), [11] "Civilized Borders" in Antipode (2011), [12] "Uprooting Identities" in PoLAR (2010), [13] "Looking at Zoos" in Cultural Studies (2011), [14] "Passing the Sniff Test" in Buffalo Law Review (2013), [15] and "Animal Frontiers: A Tale of Three Zoos in Israel/Palestine" in Cultural Critique (2013). [16] Recent essays include "Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel" in PoLAR (2021), [17] and "Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction" for a special issue of Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2021), "provid[ing] a first-of-its kind attempt to examine environmental injustices in the occupied West Bank through interdisciplinary perspectives, pointing to the broader settler colonial and neoliberal contexts within which they occur and to their more-than-human implications." [18]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Irus Braverman". Acsu.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  2. ↑ "Former Visiting fellows". Law.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  3. ↑ "THE Voice of the Independent Publishing Industry". Independent Publisher. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  4. ↑ Hernandez, Christina (2012-12-17). "Q&A: Irus Braverman, author of Zooland: The Institution of Captivity". SmartPlanet. Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  5. ↑ Plait, Phil (2013-05-03). "Irus Braverman's Zooland: Study of zoos and conversation, reviewed. - Slate Magazine". Slate.com. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  6. ↑ Irus Braverman (28 November 2012). Zooland: The Institution of Captivity - Irus Braverman. Sup.org. ISBN   978-0-8047-8357-6 . Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. ↑ Cave, Stephen (2012-09-28). "Animal spirits". FT.com. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  8. ↑ Kolbert, Elizabeth (2018-10-08). "How to Write About a Vanishing World". New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  9. ↑ McCalman, Iain (2019-04-03). "Shouting About Reefs". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  10. ↑ "SSRN Author Page for Braverman, Irus". SSRN. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  11. ↑ Irus Braverman (25 November 2008). "'The Tree is the Enemy Soldier': A Sociolegal Making of War Landscapes in the Occupied West Bank". SSRN   1307044.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  12. ↑ Irus Braverman (2011). "Civilized Borders: A Study of Israel's New Crossing Administration". SSRN   1956721.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  13. ↑ Irus Braverman (2010-02-07). "Uprooting Identities: The Regulation of Olive Trees in the Occupied West Bank". SSRN   1548592.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  14. ↑ Irus Braverman. "Looking at Zoos". SSRN   1956705.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  15. ↑ Irus Braverman. "Passing the Sniff Test: Police Dogs as Surveillance Technology". SSRN   2142530.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  16. ↑ Irus Braverman (5 April 2013). "Animal Frontiers: A Tale of Three Zoos in Israel/Palestine". SSRN   2245796.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  17. ↑ Irus Braverman (2021-05-28), Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel
  18. ↑ Irus Braverman (2021-03-12), Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction
  19. ↑ Irus Braverman; Nicholas Blomley; David Delaney; Alexander Kedar. "The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography". SSRN   2235164.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  20. ↑ Irus Braverman (2013-05-11). "Zooland: The Institution of Captivity". SSRN   2263361.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  21. ↑ "Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society): Irus Braverman: Books". Amazon. 2009-07-31. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
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