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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 17th
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. Through this lens, Land. Milk.
Honey investigates how colonialism, settlement, urbanisation,
infrastructure, and mechanised agriculture radically reshaped the
environment of the contested territory of Palestine-Israel, 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 local fauna
and flora, as well as the disruption of human communities and ways
of living. And it highlights the predicaments that both the
environment and its inhabitants are facing after the territory has
over a century been the test bed of modernist aspirations for
plenitude. The fundamental changes the region has gone through are
portrayed through the stories of five local animals: cow, goat,
honey-bee, water-buffalo, and bat. These case-studies and a
zoo-centric 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 A rich collection of literary excerpts, historical
documents, archival photos, as well as short original vignettes
brings about the story of this remarkable transfiguration and
redesign.
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