Irus Braverman

Woman outside in a field, smiling.

Professor; William J. Magavern Faculty Scholar

Research Focus: Animal Studies, Nature and Conservation Biology, Law and Geography, Legal Ethnography, Law and Society, Science and Technology Studies
Links: Curriculum VitaeSSRN, Personal Website

Contact Information

717 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-3030
irusb@buffalo.edu

Biography Publications

Recent Books and Edited Collections

SETTLING NATURE: THE CONSERVATION REGIME IN PALESTINE-ISRAEL (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) (Recipient of a 2023 Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory)

MORE-THAN-ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST-COVID (Irus Braverman, ed. Routledge Press, 2023)

LAWS OF THE SEA: INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2022)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND MORE-THAN HUMANS IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK (Irus Braverman, ed., 4 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, 2021) (Special issue)

ZOO VETERINARIANS: GOVERNING CARE ON A DISEASED PLANET (Routledge Press, 2021)

BLUE LEGALITIES: THE LAW AND LIFE OF THE SEA (Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson, eds.) (Duke University Press, 2020)

CORAL WHISPERERS: SCIENTISTS ON THE BRINK (The University of California Press, 2018)

GENE EDITING, LAW, AND THE ENVIRONMENT: LIFE BEYOND THE HUMAN (Irus Braverman, ed.) (Routledge, 2017)

ANIMALS, BIOPOLITICS, LAW: LIVELY LEGALITIES (Irus Braverman, ed.) (Routledge, 2016)

WILD LIFE: THE INSTITUTION OF NATURE (Stanford University Press, 2015)

THE EXPANDING SPACES OF LAW: A TIMELY LEGAL GEOGRAPHY (Stanford University Press, 2014)

ZOOLAND: THE INSTITUTION OF CAPTIVITY (Stanford University Press, 2013)

PLANTED FLAGS: TREES, LAND AND LAW IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

HOUSE DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM: ILLEGALITY AND RESISTANCE (The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace, Hebrew) 2006

Recent Journal Articles

The New Jewish Shepherd: The Great Battle of Pastorship in Area C of the West Bank. Antipode (forthcoming).

Ecofascism & Israel’s Black Goat Law. In special issue: “Darker Shades of Green: Anthropologies of Everyday and Emergent Ecofascism.” Cultural Anthropology (forthcoming).

]The Veterinarization of Israeli Society. In special issue, Marianna Szczygielska et al. (eds.) “Veterinarization of Society? Care and Control Beyond Animal Health.” Medical Anthropology (forthcoming).

Coral Reef Protection is Fundamental to Human Rights (with Emma F. Camp, Genevieve Wilkinson & Christian R. Voolstra). Global Change Biology 30(9): e17512. (2024). [view online

Gaza’s Underdogs: From Zoometrics to Domicide. Political Geography (2024) (published online). [view online]

Missiles, Oil, and Corals: Climate Changes in the Red Sea. Social & Legal Studies (2024) (published online). [view online]

Frontier Ecologies: Israel’s Settler Colonialism in the Jawlan-Golan. Political Geography 111 (May 2024): 103073. [view online]

Settler Ecologies and More-than-One Health: From Malaria to Avian Flu in the Hula Valley, Palestine-Israel. Environment and Planning E (2024) [view online]

Ha-Shiva La-Teva, Ha-Zman Ha-Ze: THE VAN LEER INSTITUTE MAGAZINE (2024) (in Hebrew)

Law’s Abyss, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C: SPACE AND POLITICS (2024)

Green Gold: The Akkoub’s Settler Ecologies, LA+ (Winter 2023)

Mother Drone, Mother Nature, and the Military Makings of the Griffon Vulture in Palestine-Israel, SPRINGS 4 (Fall 2023)

Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land-Sea Regimes (with Katrina Ronningen & Katrina Brown), SOCIETY AND SPACE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D (2023)

Coralations: Back to the Breath, 28(2) QUEENSLAND REVIEW 94 (2022)

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in the Earth Biogenome Project (with Katharine Barker, Jacob Sherkow, Henry Greely, et al.) 119(4) PNAS (2022)

Coralations: Back to the Breath, 28(2) QUEENSLAND REVIEW 94 (2022)

Corals in the City: Cultivating Ocean Life in the Anthropocene, 16 (1) CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCE 96 (2021)

Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel, POLAR:POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW (2021)

Corals in the City: Cultivating Ocean Life in the Anthropocene City, 16 CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCE: JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 96, 96-112 (Special Issue: Urban Animals: Cartographies of Radical Encounters) (2021)

Environmental Justice in the Occupied West Bank, NATURE AND SPACE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E (2020) (Special issue)

Fleshy Encounters: Meddling with Zoo and Aquarium Veterinarians. HUMANIMALIA (2020)

Nof Kdumim: Imagining the Ancient Landscape in East Jerusalem’s National Parks, 4 NATURE AND SPACE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E 109, 109-134 (2020) (Special issue)

Shifting Baselines in Coral Conservation, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E 3(1): 20-39 (Special issue) (2020)

Recent Chapters

“Dogs, Domestication, and Domicide in Gaza & Israel.” In Underworlds,  (with On Barak) edited by Petersmann, M. and Van Den Meerssche, D. (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

“Contemplations on Dig Safe Markings: Law as Street Art” In Paolo Patelli, Giuditta Vendrame, & Elise Limon (eds). Friction Atlas (forthcoming, Onomatopee : 2024).

“Settler Ecologies in Palestine-Israel.” In Jessie Fredlund, Elle Shoreman Ouimet, and Helen Kopnina, Routledge International Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (Routledge : 2024).

“Ocean Law & Climate Justice.” In Steve Mentz, Mohammad Muharram, Serpil Oppermann, and Sandra Young, Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities, (Bloomsbury Publishing: 2024).

The Microbial Zoo: How Small is Wild?, in A Wilder Kingdom: Rethinking the Wild in ZOOS, WILDLIFE PARKS, AND BEYOND (Ben Minteer & Harry Greene, eds., Columbia University Press, 2023)

Introduction: More-than-One Health, More-than-One Governance, in MORE-THAN-ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST-COVID 1 (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2023)

One Health, Surveillance, and the Pandemic Treaty: An Interview with John H. Amusai, in MORE-THAN ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST COVID 79 (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2023)

Spillover Interfaces from Wuhan to Wall Street: An Interview with Chris Walzer, in MORE-THAN ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST COVID 55 (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2023)

Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land-Sea Regimes, in LAWS OF THE SEA: INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2022)

Genetic Freedom of the Seas in the Age of Extractivism: Marine Genetic Resources in AREAS BEYOND NATIONAL JURISDICTION, IN LAWS OF THE SEA: INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2022)

Coral Restoration and Citizen Scientists in the Anthropocene, in THE NATURE OF DATA: INFRASTRUCTURES, ENVIRONMENTS, POLITICS (Jenny E. Goldstein & Eric Nost, eds., Nebraska University Press 2022)

Animals, in ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK FOR LAW AND SOCIETY (Mariana Valverde, Kamari M. Clarke, Eve Darian Smith & Prabha Kotiswaran, eds., 2021)

Blue Legalities: Untangling Ocean Laws, in THE ANTHROPOCENE, INTRODUCTION TO BLUE LEGALITIES: THE LAW AND LIFE OF THE SEA (coauthored with Elizabeth R. Johnson) (2020)

Oculta a Plena Vista: La Geografía Jurídica Desde Una Perspectiva Visual (with Elizabeth R. Johnson, Richard T. Ford, Mariana Valverde & Maria Victoria Castro Cristancho), in DERECHO Y GEOGRAFÍA: ESPACIO, PODER YSISTEMA JURÍDICO 251, 251-80 (Bogotá D. C. & Siglo Del Hombre, eds., Universidad de los Andes 2020)