Land. Milk. Honey : animal stories in imagined landscapes / written and edited by Rachel Gottesman, Tamar Novick, Iddo Ginat, Dan Hasson, Yonatan Cohen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Gottesman, Rachel, author, editor.

Novick, Tamar, author, editor.

Ginat, Iddo, author, editor.

Hasson, Dan, author, editor.

Cohen, Yonatan, author, editor.

Conference Name:

International Architectural Exhibition (17th : 2020 : Venice, Italy), host institution.

Standardized Title:

Erets. Ḥalav. Devash. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Israel--Exhibitions.

Architecture--Palestine--Exhibitions.

Animals--Israel--History--Exhibitions.

Animals--Palestine--History--Exhibitions.

Agriculture--Israel.

Architecture--Israel.

Architecture and society--Israel.

Animals--Israel--History.

Israel--Environmental conditions.

Animals.

Architecture.

Architecture and society.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

History.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books ; Tel Aviv : Nine Lives Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Includes some Arabic.

Summary:

A unique documentation of how ideology translated into colonialism, settlement, urbanization, infrastructure, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment of Palestine-Israel. The biblical metaphor of a "Land of Milk and Honey" has denoted for millennia a prophecy and promise for plenitude. This book, published in conjunction with the Israeli Pavilion at the seventeenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, examines the reciprocal relations between humans, animals, and the environment within the context of modern Palestine-Israel, and demonstrates how this promise has become an action-plan over the course of the twentieth century. Land. Milk. Honey investigates how colonialism, urbanization, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment and altered human-animal relationships. It shows how the celebrated metamorphosis of the region into a prosperous agricultural landscape was entangled with irreparable damage to the environment, as well as the disruption of human communities. And it highlights the predicaments that both the environment and its inhabitants are facing after the territory has, over a century, been the testbed of modernist aspirations for plenitude. The fundamental changes the region has undergone are portrayed through the stories of five local animals: cow, goat, honeybee, water buffalo, and bat. These case-studies and analysis construct a spatial history of a place in five acts: Mechanization, Territory, Cohabitation, Extinction, and the Post-Human. A rich collection of literary excerpts, historical documents, archival photos, as well as short original vignettes reveals the story of this remarkable transfiguration and redesign.--University of Chicago website.

Notes:

Issued concurrently in Hebrew as Erets. Ḥalav. Devash.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Israeli Pavilion at the 17th Biennale of Architecture.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-384).

ISBN:

9783038602477

3038602477

3938602473

OCLC:

1259527526