Colonized Environments and Worldviews: Perspectives from Palestine and the Jawlan

Join CCAS for a lecture on political ecology featuring Dr. Muna Dajani, a Fellow in Environment, Geography and Environment Department at the London School of Economics.

This talk will be addressing the issues of Israeli settler colonial ecological violence and how it has been experienced by generations of colonized communities in Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as it relates to their access to water, land and livelihood. Dominant framings of human and environmental insecurity have often obfuscated and normalized structures of oppression and dispossession inflicted on colonized communities, rendering them even more vulnerable and prone to social and political disintegration, resource dispossession and depoliticizing their struggles for liberation and sovereignty.

This lecture will be in the context of the CCAS class Water Politics taught by Professor Marwa Daoudy. Dr. Daoudy will moderate the event.

Dr. Muna Dajani is an action researcher with a background in critical political ecology. Her work aims to understand environmental and water governance through decolonial and critical lenses. Her research focuses on examining community struggles for rights to water and land in settler colonial contexts in Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, with special attention to farming practices, infrastructural politics and identity formation.