iced_mochas's review
4.0
An essay by Eyal Weizman with accompanying aerial photographs by Fazal Sheikh, this book takes a careful evidence-based approach to map the Negev desert. It shows how changes to land and ecology can signify colonialism and conflict. With a particular focus on Israel’s “making the desert bloom” project, it demonstrates how settler colonialism displaces people and uses the environment to hide its remains – often quite literally. It explains how the Israeli state “greenwashes” to obscure history and how it has capitalised on the language of terrorism / climate change to this end. The detailed research including analysis of periodic satellite images is especially useful for academics studying postcolonial ecology.
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