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dc.identifier	ECF_article_9426
dc.title	The Healing Mathematics of Life in a Gesture: Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees
dc.contributor.author	Besson Françoise
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-venice-journal-of-environmental-humanities/2022/2/the-healing-mathematics-of-life-in-a-gesture-jean/
dc.description.abstract	Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees gives a key to the awareness of connections between trees, the land, and all life. It shows the weight of a gesture in the revival of an apparently hostile desert, the role of an individual’s action for the community, either local or global, and also the healing power of that gesture. The tree-planting performed by the fictional shepherd has echoes in reality through Wangari Maathai’s action and the Greenbelt Movement and other individual or collective actions. The article tackles the importance of both a simple physical gesture and literature; it shows how one person’s behaviour can make a difference and change the world.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lagoonscapes
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 2 \| Num. 2 \| Dicembre 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-15
dc.dateAccepted	2022-11-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-06-07
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-2709
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2022/04/006
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Connections
dc.subject	Jean Giono
dc.subject	Land revival
dc.subject	Planting trees
dc.subject	Wangari Maathai

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The Healing Mathematics of Life in a Gesture: Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees

Françoise Besson University of Toulouse II, France

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Jean Giono’s The Man Who Planted Trees gives a key to the awareness of connections between trees, the land, and all life. It shows the weight of a gesture in the revival of an apparently hostile desert, the role of an individual’s action for the community, either local or global, and also the healing power of that gesture. The tree-planting performed by the fictional shepherd has echoes in reality through Wangari Maathai’s action and the Greenbelt Movement and other individual or collective actions. The article tackles the importance of both a simple physical gesture and literature; it shows how one person’s behaviour can make a difference and change the world.

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15 Dicembre 2022

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24 Novembre 2022

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07 Giugno 2022

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Keywords: Connections • Wangari Maathai • Planting trees • Jean Giono • Land revival

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