Environmental Framing and Its Limits: Campaigns in Palestine and Israel

McKee, Emily

doi:10.1017/s0020743818000806

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“…Persistent environmental activism in Israel and Palestine has gained more scholarly interest (McKee, 2018). McKee clarifies the limitations of environmental framing by examining movements in Palestine and Israel.…”

Section: Directions In Research On Environmental Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Trends in Environmental Activism

Allen

2023

International Political Science Abstracts

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There has been an increase in the activities of environmental groups in recent years. Based on the review of forty-five recent scholarly articles on environmental activism, this article focuses on trends in the literature in terms of conceptualization, themes, and directions, as well as it suggests agendas for future research. The article notes climate justice as a key concern for the direction of scholarship on the subject, and covers the themes of the emergence of Green political parties, radical environmentalism, ecological citizenship, violence and non-violence, and social conflict.

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Section: Directions In Research On Environmental Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Trends in Environmental Activism

Allen

2023

International Political Science Abstracts

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“…For anyone seeking clout in the circles of people with the authority to help build Palestine’s infrastructural future, performing environmental awareness and framing Israel/Palestine (McKee, 2018) as an environment vulnerable to excrement encouraged a disavowal of one’s senses. Not being bothered by the smell of excrement was a sign for many of my interlocutors in the PA and municipalities that one understood the science .…”

Section: Sensory Falloutmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scratch-and-sniff Palestine: How olfaction shapes nonsovereign infrastructural spaces

Stamatopoulou-Robbins

2022

Environ Plan D

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This article makes two related arguments. First, that the continuum of hazards that people can experience in relation to waste infrastructures can include unstable epistemic and political positionings of olfaction, alongside other impingements of human excrement such as toxicity to the human body and damage to ecologies. I show this by paying attention to how people are sensitized to smell and by paying attention to how diverse forms of scientific measurement have responded to embodied attunements under nonsovereign conditions in Palestine. Second, I argue that olfaction can be key to shaping infrastructures’ specific trajectories while also creating open-ended possibilities for the making of political subjects and futures. In Palestine, olfaction is an object of interpretation, a sensory tool for interpretation, and a shifting marker of belonging to different types of collectivities. Holding one’s real or proverbial nose—or not—contributes to the conditions that facilitate or preempt livability there. This article draws on fieldwork among Palestinian environmentalists, Palestinian Authority bureaucrats, and municipal employees between 2007 and 2017 to show how human bodies—and their interpreted and interpretive attunements—must figure in our investigations of infrastructural spaces in the Middle East and beyond.

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“…Recent research has analyzed concerns about environmental pollution, planetary connectedness, and climatic change as politics (e.g. Agrawal, 2005; Barnes et al., 2013; Bishara et al, 2021, this issue; Guarasci, 2015, 2018; Günel, 2019; Haraway, 2015; McKee, 2018; Martinez-Alier, 2003; Ogden et al., 2013; O’Reilly, 2017; Tsing, 2005, 2015; West, 2006, 2012, 2016). I draw from these conversations to propose that, while West Bank Palestinians have arguably lived nonsovereign since 1967, this failure-to-build temporality takes on its distinct moral valence from the contemporary way that actors now ruling Palestinian life—Israel, donors, the PA—define, evaluate, and determine the environmental standards for Palestinian infrastructures (Stamatopoulou-Robbins, 2014).…”

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Failure to build: Sewage and the choppy temporality of infrastructure in Palestine

Stamatopoulou-Robbins

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Drawing on fieldwork in the West Bank (2007–2016) with engineers building sewage infrastructures for the would-be Palestinian state, I make a three-pronged argument. First, I argue that “failure to build” is its own thick, disorienting, and molasses-like condition. It is also “choppy”: it has a disjointed, jerky, quality that is inconstant and unsettling as if one is at sea without a lifeboat. It is limited neither to short-term, tactical governance—a governmentality looking to survive in the short term—nor to strategically planning for the future. It combines the durability of the temporary with the fragility of the future. Second, I propose that the failure-to-build temporality is structured by and structures the intersection of two phenomena: nonsovereignty, for example but not only in settler colonialism or war, and particular environmentalist logics. Failure to build takes on its moral valence from the way those who rule Palestinian life—Israel, international donors, and the Palestinian Authority—determine the environmental standards for Palestinian infrastructures. For these actors, the environment is a singular entity “shared” across political borders. It requires expertise Palestinians are repeatedly suspected of lacking, partly because they lack a state and experience running their own infrastructures. Failure to build thus works circularly in relation to nonsovereignty. The more nonsovereign communities “fail to build,” the more those who govern them can claim the right to control what and how they build. Third, I argue that waste infrastructures such as landfills, incinerators, and sewage treatment plants are particularly susceptible to a failure-to-build temporality because of their association with environmental harm.

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Environmental Framing and Its Limits: Campaigns in Palestine and Israel

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

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Scratch-and-sniff Palestine: How olfaction shapes nonsovereign infrastructural spaces

Failure to build: Sewage and the choppy temporality of infrastructure in Palestine

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