Researcher Ronen Shamir has published a new study titled: “Contested Infrastructures: The Case of British-Mandate Palestine” in the Journal of (Settler Colonial Studies). The study looks at infrastructures as sites of the contest between empire and settler-colonialists. It analyzes the construction of Mandate Palestine’s Haifa seaport and Lydda Airport as imperial projects and traces the techno-political networks that allowed Jewish settlers to build their own competing seaport and airport in Tel-Aviv during the anti-colonial Arab Revolt (1936–1939). It identifies a dialectical relationship between colonizers and empire: Jewish settlers welcomed Palestine’s intended role as an arena of imperial development but soon developed their own stakes in securing access to sea and skies. The study contributes to the scant knowledge about infrastructures in colonial settings and specifically to the little-known role of British consultant engineers in facilitating them. For further details, click here