“We are the only people in this world who are living under such total occupation. Israel sees us as being equal to our animals, and sometimes they even value us less than our animals.” This quote, from the founder of the Gaza Zoo, demonstrates both the significance and the complexities of human-animal relations in Gaza, especially at times of siege and war. My article draws on ethnographic encounters and investigative analysis to relay how Gaza’s spatial confinement generally, and the Israeli incursion into Gaza of summer 2014 in particular, has lent itself to a radicalized discursive interplay between the animalization of humans and the humanizing of animals who dwell in this place. I tell how human animals — Israelis and Palestinians, children and terrorists — as well as nonhuman animals — snakes, zoo animals, dogs, mice, lions, insects, zebras, donkeys, chicken, and beasts — perform detailed daily rituals of humanization, dehumanization, and animalization, making life and death more or less worthy through redefining the degrees of their relative humanity and animality. I coin the term “zoometrics” to refer to such detailed calculations of biopolitical worthiness that occur within and along the animal-human divide. Such zoometric accounts highlight the slippages between bestialized and humanized bodies, exacerbated by these bodies’ shared conditions of extreme captivity in Gaza.

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俘虏：加沙的缩放操作

“我们是这个世界上唯一生活在这种完全占领之下的人。以色列认为我们和我们的动物一样，有时甚至比我们的动物更看重我们。” 这句话来自加沙动物园的创始人，展示了加沙人与动物关系的重要性和复杂性，尤其是在围困和战争时期。我的文章利用人种学的遭遇和调查分析来传达加沙的空间限制，特别是 2014 年夏天以色列对加沙的入侵，如何使人类的动物化和居住在那里的动物的人性化之间发生激进的话语相互作用。这个地方。我讲述人类动物——以色列人和巴勒斯坦人、儿童和恐怖分子——以及非人类动物——蛇、动物园里的动物、狗、老鼠、狮子、昆虫、斑马、驴、鸡、兽——每天都进行细致的人性化、非人化和兽化仪式，通过重新定义它们相对人性和动物性的程度，使生死或多或少有价值。我创造了“动物计量学”一词来指代发生在动物与人类鸿沟内部和沿线的生物政治价值的这种详细计算。这种放大的描述突出了兽化和人性化的身体之间的滑移，这些身体在加沙极端囚禁的共同条件加剧了这种情况。我创造了“动物计量学”一词来指代发生在动物与人类鸿沟内部和沿线的生物政治价值的这种详细计算。这种放大的描述突出了兽化和人性化的身体之间的滑移，这些身体在加沙极端囚禁的共同条件加剧了这种情况。我创造了“动物计量学”一词来指代发生在动物与人类鸿沟内部和沿线的生物政治价值的这种详细计算。这种放大的描述突出了兽化和人性化的身体之间的滑移，这些身体在加沙极端囚禁的共同条件加剧了这种情况。