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Planted Flags Irus Braverman (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Planted Flags By Irus Braverman (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Summary

Planted Flags examines how the war between Israelis and Palestinians is reflected, mediated, and reinforced through the material and symbolic creation of two tree landscapes.

Planted Flags Summary

Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine by Irus Braverman (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Planted Flags tells an extraordinary story about the mundane uses of law and landscape in the war between Israelis and Palestinians. The book is structured around the two dominant tree landscapes in Israel/Palestine: pine forests and olive groves. The pine tree, which is usually associated with the Zionist project of afforesting the Promised Land, is contrasted with the olive tree, which Palestinians identify as a symbol of their longtime connection to the land. What is it that makes these seemingly innocuous, even natural, acts of planting, cultivating, and uprooting trees into acts of war? How is this war reflected, mediated, and, above all, reinforced through the polarization of the 'natural' landscape into two juxtaposed landscapes? And what is the role of law in this story? Planted Flags explores these questions through an ethnographic study. By telling the story of trees through the narratives of military and government officials, architects, lawyers, Palestinian and Israeli farmers, and Jewish settlers, the seemingly static and mute landscape assumes life, expressing the cultural, economic, and legal dynamics that constantly shape and reshape it.

About Irus Braverman (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Irus Braverman is Associate Professor of Law at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of House Demolitions in East Jerusalem: 'Illegality' and Resistance and has previously been affiliated with the Humanities Center at Harvard University, the Human Rights Program at Harvard University Law School, the Center of Criminology at the University of Toronto, and the Geography Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary study of law, geography, and anthropology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: trees and war; 1. A genealogy of tree bureaucracy; 2. The Zionist pine tree project; 3. The Palestinian olive tree project; 4. 'The tree is the enemy soldier'; Epilogue: tree wars?

Additional information

NLS9781107692275
9781107692275
110769227X
Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine by Irus Braverman (State University of New York, Buffalo)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2014-03-06
272
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