n behavioral ecology, foraging is the process wherein living beings search for food sources in their natural habitat. The ability to forage successfully is essential to animals’ well-being, as it directly affects their ability to survive and reproduce. But have you ever seen foraging as an act of resistance? Indeed, foraging as an intuitive behavior has a lot to do with the right and freedom of moving, accessibility and sharing a place with more-than-human beings; offering alternative ways of living away from capitalist methods.
Foraging in Palestine, for example, “is vulnerable to the severe effects of the occupation of the land, its fragmentation, its system of segregation, the separation wall, military checkpoints, rampaging settlers and their fenced settlements, soldiers, and the ongoing endless construction of infrastructure and road mapping.”
