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1. 1. Planting and Uprooting Natures: The Judaization of the Arab Landscape in Israel through Afforestation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Jessica Marx; [2011]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In this thesis I examine the forest as the nexus of social and environmental worlds in Israel. By exploring the history of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and afforestation, I synthesize the given literature using a lens of human ecology to delve into the cultural, social, political, and ecological processes by which afforestation is simultaneously a tool of nation-building and a mechanism of ethno-nationalist dominance. READ MORE