Professor; William J. Magavern Faculty Scholar
Research Focus: Animal Studies, Nature and Conservation Biology, Law and Geography, Law and Genetics, Legal Ethnography, Law and Society, Science and Technology Studies
Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN, Personal Website
717 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-3030
irusb@buffalo.edu
Faculty Assistant: Anita M. Gesel
SETTLING NATURE: THE CONSERVATION REGIME IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2023)
MORE-THAN-ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST-COVID (Irus Braverman, ed.) (Routledge Press, 2022)
LAWS OF THE SEA: INTERDISCIPLINARY CURRENTS (Irus Braverman, ed., Routledge Press, 2022)
MORE-THAN-ONE HEALTH: HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT POST-PANDEMIC (Irus Braverman, ed.) (Routledge, forthcoming 2022)
SETTLING NATURE: THE BIOPOLITICS OF CONSERVATION IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2022)
UNRULY OCEANS (tentative title). Irus Braverman (ed.) (Routledge, forthcoming 2022)
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND MORE-THAN-HUMANS IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK, (Irus Braverman, ed.) Environment and Planning E (Sage, special issue, 2021)
ZOO VETERINARIANS: GOVERNING CARE ON A DISEASED PLANET (Routledge, 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)
Environmental Justice in the Occupied West Bank, NATURE AND SPACE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E (forthcoming 2020) (Special issue)
Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel, POLAR:POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW,[online] (2021)
Website
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)
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)
Fish Encounters: Aquariums and their Veterinarians in a Rapidly Changing World 11 HUMANIMALIA 1, 1-29 (2019)
Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene, 1 ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY PORTAL, ARCADIA 1-6 (Spring 2019)
Silent springs: The Nature of Water and Israel’s Military Occupation, 3 ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E:NATURE AND SPACE5 27, 527-551 (2019)
Uprooting Identities: The Regulation of Olive Trees in the Occupied West Bank, 7 OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY (2019) (Special issue)
Law’s Underdog: A New Call for Nonhuman Legalities, ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE (2018)
Nature as Spectacle, 101 TOPOS: THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN 80-85 (2018)
Renouncing Citizenship as Protest: Reflections by a Jewish Israeli Ethnographer, CRITICAL INQUIRY 44(2): 379-386 (2018)
Saving Species, One Individual at a Time: Zoo Veterinarians between Welfare and Conservation, HUMANIMALIA vol. 9(2): 1-27 (Spring 2018)
Renouncing Israeli Citizenship as Protest: Reflections by a Jewish Israeli Ethnographer, CRITICAL INQUIRY vol. 44(2): 379-386 (2018)
Bleached!: Managing Coral Catastrophe, FUTURES vol. 92: 12-28 (2017)
Captive: Zoometric Operations in Gaza, PUBLIC CULTURE vol. 29(1): 191-215. (2017)
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 forthcoming)
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)
Robotic Life in the Deep Sea: Deploying Killer (and Other) Robots to Make Live, in OCEAN LEGALITIES (Irus Braverman and Elizabeth R. Johnson, eds.) (Duke University Press, 2019)
Military-to-Wildlife Geographies: Bureaucracies of Cleanup and Conservation in Vieques, in HANDBOOK ON THE GEOGRAPHIES OF REGIONS AND TERRITORIES (Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, and Martin Jones, editors) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018)
Zooland: The Institution of Captivity, in SURVEILLANCE STUDIES: A READER 59, 59-62 (Torin Monahan & David Murakami Wood, eds., Oxford University Press 2018)