Contribution short abstract:

A deeper archival understanding of Palestinian agroecological life and the effect of nature reserves will enable a new understanding of more-than-human landscapes in the occupied West Bank to (re)produce agroecological local knowledge.

Contribution long abstract:

This contribution will give me an opportunity to present my research interests in studying more- than- human landscape in Occupied Palestine, especially since my research interests focus on archives, surveys and documenting the existing vegetation and built environment via fieldwork and aerial photography to understand how the nature reserves affected the relationship and the plant species before 1967 and after. In addition, this contribution will allow me to exchange knowledge on how to conduct field visits and oral history interviews to document the disappearing environmental history, especially from marginalised communities and the history of their relations with their landscape and the transformations that have affected them. Seeing other experiences conducting research about more-than-human landscapes and archives to elucidate the agroecological transformation of the landscape will allow me to use more tools and ways of research that may work for my research interests.

Instead of relying only on official archival sources and a dominant national and ideological lens in perceiving and analysing agroecological transformations and adaptation, I am interested in concentrating on analysing non-official archival documents that Palestinians might hold about the research area.