Decarbonising Palestine: Politics of Nature and Weather Relations in Local Historical Farming Knowledge

Decolonising Palestine goes hand in hand with decarbonizing the imagination within climate crisis. This invites in rediscovering the role of carbon economy in shaping the environment: the politics of nature that took place in the West Bank with the naturalization of a colonial landscape, the notions of domain of nature within modernization policies, and the farming ideologies within nationalism. The atmosphere, which today takes a new global geopolitical role, has often been absent from social sciences, but was very present in historical farming practices of fellahin: an ancient agricultural calendar called Murba’nia, well shows the local knowledge of the relatedness of local communities with envi- ronmental resources and limits and in reading the unpredictability of weather. An issue that today becomes more and more relevant in sharing a common epoch of accelerated environmental changes.