Overview
In Milk and Honey, Tamar NovickĀ writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Israel/Palestine. Focusing onĀ animals and the management of their production and reproductionĀ across three political regimesāthe late-Ottoman rule, British rule, and the early Israeli stateāNovick draws attention to the ways in which settlers and state expertsĀ used agricultural technologyĀ to recreate a biblical idea of past plenitude, literally a āland flowing with milk and honey,ā through the bodies of animals and people.Ā
Novick presents a series of case studies involving the management of water buffalo, bees, goats, sheep, cows, and peoplein Palestine/Israel. She traces the intimate forms of knowledge and bodily laborāproduction and reproductionāin which this process took place, and the intertwining of bodily, political, and environmental realms in the transformation of Palestine/Israel. Her wide-ranging approachĀ shows technology never replaced religion as a colonial device. Rather, it merged with settler-colonial aspirations to salvage the land, bolstering the effort to seize control over territory and people.
Fusing technology, religious fervor, bodily labor, and political ecology, Milk and Honey provides a novel account ofĀ the practices that defined and continue to shape settler-colonialism in the Palestine/Israel,Ā revealing the ongoing entanglement ofĀ technoscience and religion in our time.
This book title, Milk and Honey (Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land), ISBN: 9780262039079, by Tamar Novick, published by MIT Press (July 11, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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