Sans mémoire des lieux ni lieux de mémoire. La Palestine invisible sous les forêts israéliennes
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, nearly 240 million trees have been planted across the national territory of Israel. In order to “make the desert boom”, the stakeholders of afforestation in Israel are involved in the many challenges of the territory, not only environmental but...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association AGF
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/bagf/6779 |
| Summary: | Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, nearly 240 million trees have been planted across the national territory of Israel. In order to “make the desert boom”, the stakeholders of afforestation in Israel are involved in the many challenges of the territory, not only environmental but also in identity and culture. Forests in Israel are in fact a space of competition for memory, embodying both the rooting of Israeli identity and the reminder of the exile and the impossible return of the Palestinian people. While 86 Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 are covered by a forest today, the official tourist and historical circuits proposed in Israeli forests never mention this past Palestinian presence. How has afforestation in Israel contributed to the obliteration of the Palestinian landscape and memory? What actions exist in Israel and Palestine to resist this spatial and memorial erasure? |
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| ISSN: | 0004-5322 2275-5195 |