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pregnancy and the act of birthing become sites of dispossession where settler anxieties of native population growth meet the reproductive and psychological stress of colonized women bodies, which refuse the colonial logic of erasure. Death and birth are thus considered intimate and political sites of colonial governance that make visible the necropolitical and biopolitical nature of settler sovereignty. Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear builds on the author’s long time experience with, activism among, and scholarship on women and children in Palestine and thereby makes a significant contribution to the critical project of articulating relations between colonial structures of power and the texture of everyday life. A project premised on a conception of Zionism that shifts from land-based perspectives, dominant in both settler colonial and Palestine studies, to forge an approach that is inclusive of both territorial dispossession and the invasion, displacement, and erasure of bodies. To deepen this project, however, it seems essential to consider how, on the one hand, this analysis can be linked with a broader political economy to create a framework cognizant of the entangled relationship between land, bodies, and capital. This book is a critical first step towards rethinking the relationship between forms of racially inscribed dispossession and capitalist modes of accumulation while remaining attentive to the structures of feelings and politics of suffering it elaborates. It opens the question of what role these everyday, embodied experiences have in our political imagination and how they can ignite new ideas about social transformation, decolonization, and liberation. This is a great book that ultimately reminds us of the importance of engaged ethnographic fieldwork. Shalhoub-Kevorkian takes seriously the voices and experiences of native peoples and women. Her work addresses and demonstrates the need for more critical analyses of Palestine and Palestinians grounded in an evolving field of settler colonial studies.