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Vazquez, Lucia GutierrezCorresponding AuthorAlcocer, Atxu AmannAuthor

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May 20, 2025
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Greening the occupation: colonial landscape regulation in Palestine-Israel

Publicated to: Settler Colonial Studies. - 2025-05-07 (), DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2025.2498254

Authors:

Gutiérrez Vázquez L; Amann Alcocer A; Martella F
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Roma Tre, Rome, Italy - Author

Abstract

Historically, the modification of the landscape through afforestation has been instrumentalized in the service of the colonization of the territory. In this context, the construction of green areas in Palestine-Israel in the twentieth century can be interpreted as an exercise of strategic territorial control linked to the Zionist project. The planting of forests under the Forest Ordinance of 1926 in the territory acquired by Israel, the cultivation of olives associated with Article 78 of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 in the West Bank, and the designation of Parks and Nature Reserves thanks to the National Parks Law of 1998 alongside Order 373 in the West Bank are three interventions that demonstrate the synergy between plantations and prevailing regulations. Through its analysis, this article reveals the landscape as a material result of surveillance technologies and argues that green areas in Palestine-Israel are covertly instrumentalized against rootedness, autonomous reproduction, mobility, self-determination, and the memory of the Palestinian people, masking a colonization strategy according to a model of territorial ethnic cleansing.
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Keywords

AfforestationGreeningLandscapeLawsPalestine-israelSettler colonialismSurveillanceTerritorial controTerritorial control

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Settler Colonial Studies due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category .

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-19:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 3 (PlumX).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Italy.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (GUTIERREZ VAZQUEZ, LUCIA) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been GUTIERREZ VAZQUEZ, LUCIA.

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