Irus Braverman PROFESSOR AND WILLIAM J. MAGAVERN F A C U LT Y S C H O L A R SJD, University of Toronto MA, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem LLB, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(716) 645-3030
irusb@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
ARTICLES
ANIMAL STUDIES
Corals in the City: Cultivating Ocean Life
NATURE AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY LAW AND GEOGRAPHY
My research focuses on the
in the Anthropocene, 16 Contemporary Social Science 96 (2021).
LAW AND GENETICS
relationship between law,
LEGAL ETHNOGRAPHY
science, and nature. My books
LAW AND SOCIETY
include: Planted Flags: Trees,
PALESTINE/ISRAEL
Land and Law in Israel/
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
Palestine (2009), Zooland: The Institution of Captivity
BOOKS
(Independent Publisher Award
Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary
Winner, 2012), Wild Life:
Currents (Irus Braverman, ed.)
The Institution of Nature
(Routledge, forthcoming 2022).
(2015). and Coral Whisperers:
Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism, and More-thanHumans in the Occupied West Bank: An Introduction, 4 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3 (2021) (Special issue). Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialsim in Palestine/Israel, 44 PoLAR: Political and Legal
Scientists on the Brink (2018).
More-than-One Health: Humans,
My latest monograph, Zoo
Anthropology Review 7 (2021).
Animals, and the Environment
Veterinarians: Governing Care on a Diseased Planet (2021), highlights the recent
Post-Pandemic (Irus Braverman, ed.)
Fleshy Encounters: Meddling
(Routledge, forthcoming 2022).
in the Lifeworlds of Zoo and Aquarium Veterinarians, 11(2)
transformation in the zoo
Settling Nature: The Politics
veterinarian profession during
Humanimalia 49 (2020).
of Conservation in Palestine/
a time of ecological crisis, and what this transformation can teach us about how to care for a
Israel (University of Minnesota
Nof Kdumim: Imagining the Ancient
Press, forthcoming 2022).
Landscape in East Jerusalem’s National Parks, 4 Nature and Space:
diseased planet. I am currently working on a book manuscript on the management of national
Zoo Veterinarians: Governing
Environment and Planning E
Care on a Diseased Planet
109 (2020) (Special issue).
(Routledge, 2021).
parks and nature reserves in
Shifting Baselines in Coral
Palestine/Israel. I have also edited book collections on legal geography, gene editing and the environment, and ocean
Blue Legalities: The Life and
Conservation, 3(1) Nature and
Laws of the Sea (Irus Braverman
Space: Environment and Planning
& Elizabeth R. Johnson, eds.,
E 20 (2020) (Special issue).
Duke University Press, 2020).
legalities. I am currently editing
Fish Encounters: Aquariums and their
a collection on One Health.”
Coral Whisperers: Scientists
Veterinarians on a Rapidly Changing
on the Brink (The University
Planet, 11 Humanimalia 1 (Fall 2019).
of California Press, 2018).
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