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dc.contributor.author | Tesdell, Omar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-06T08:39:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-06T08:39:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-01 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0016-7185 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11889/4388 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper traces how scientific research on wheat (Triticum) worked to establish Palestine as a region sought for colonization. Recent work in geography has refined our understanding of agricultural expansion as an outcome of colonization, however, this work leaves the place-making capacity of agricultural research largely unexplored. My claim is that rather than a byproduct of colonization, wheat research served to remake Palestine as a biophysical region in need of improvement and colonization. I show how a shift in the plant sciences from research in taxonomy to plant breeding corresponded to an agro-climatic shift on Palestine from an undesirable, arid region to a promising dryland agricultural region. In this way, wheat research drew Palestine and the United States into a wider effort to transform arid areas into agricultural drylands. Drawing on a previously unexplored episode of technical cooperation between researchers in the United States and Palestine, I argue that we must examine how wildness native-ness, and agro-climatic suitability are scientifically constituted within and not apart from colonial conquest. In doing so, the paper calls for reconsideration within geography and political ecology of the place-making relationship between colonization and scientific practice | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Geoforum | en_US |
dc.subject | Agricultural ecology - Palestine | en_US |
dc.subject | Palestine - Climate | en_US |
dc.subject | Arid regions - Palestine | en_US |
dc.title | Wild wheat to productive drylands: global scientific practice and the agroecological remaking of Palestine | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
newfileds.department | Arts | en_US |
newfileds.item-access-type | bzu | en_US |
newfileds.thesis-prog | none | en_US |
newfileds.general-subject | Geography and History | الجغرافيا والتاريخ | en_US |
item.languageiso639-1 | other | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
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