New under the Sun explores Zionist perceptions of—and responses to—Palestine's climate. From the rise of the Zionist movement in the late 1890s to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Netta Cohen traces the production of climactic knowledge through a rich archive that draws from medicine and botany, technology and economics, and architecture and planning. As Cohen convincingly argues, this knowledge was not only shaped by Jewish settlers' Eurocentric views but was also indebted to colonial practices and institutions. Zionists' claims to the land were often based on the construction of Jewish settlers as natives, even while this was complicated by their alienated responses to Palestine's climate. New under the Sun offers a highly original environmental lens on the ways in which Zionism's spatial ambitions and racial fantasies transformed the lives of humans and nonhumans in Palestine.
By:
Dr. Netta Cohen
Imprint: California Uni Pr Trade
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520397231
ISBN 10: 0520397231
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 04 June 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Colonial History of Climate Investigation in Palestine 1. Knowing Climate Climate Research in Undesired Geographies Climate Investigation in Palestine Working Methods in Climate Investigation 2. Climate and the Jewish European Body Climate, Race and the ‘Origin’ of the Jewish People Tropical Medicine: A Healthy Land Makes a Healthy People Medical Climatology and the Future of Jews in Palestine 3. Warm Palestinian Climate—Cool Jewish Spaces “The Refrigerating Industries” The Garden Cities of Yesterday How to say “Climate” in Arabic? Jewish Residential Spaces, 1910s–1920s Local Heat—International Style Climate, Roofs, and Building Materials 4. Climate and the Study of Plants Forestation Against Desiccation Acclimatization of Foreign Plants: Sources of Inspiration Irrigation Technologies Fruit Plantations: A Case Study in Zionist Acclimatization Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
Netta Cohen is Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church College, University of Oxford.
