DEJMENA · Decolonial Enviromental Justice: from the Middle East and North Africa to North America

Decolonial Enviromental Justice: from the Middle East and North Africa to North America

DEJMENA—Decolonial Environmental Justice: from Middle East and North Africa to North America aims to provide a reading of environmental justice at the intersection of indigeneity and feminist decoloniality. The project draws on activists’ and indigenous communities’ struggles with environmental (in)justice, particularly land and water protection, across the contexts of the Levant (Palestinian women farmers in the Southern West Bank), and North America (Native American women activists of the Lakota people in the Midwestern region of the US). In doing so, it provides a novel and a much urgent grounding of the locally global impact and value of decolonial feminist ecologies. DEJMENA combines a decolonial feminist approach to the question of Environmental Justice (EJ) as it emerges from the historical and material specificity of everyday confrontation with and survival against the violence of the settler colonial regimes (Israel and the United States).The objective of DEJMENA is to map out how EJ intersects and mutually interacts with indigenous strife for land and water protection across Indigenous locales. While DEJMENA utilizes the expertise that I have built in relation to decolonial feminist epistemes from below responding to socio-political injustices of [settler]colonial and/or neo-colonial statist settings of the global south, it expands this by revealing their deeply ecological implications. There are three interrelated and specific objectives: SO1 (WP3). To expand the theorising of decolonial EJ as it emanates from the indigenous locales of MENA. It does so via an excavation of the (hi)stories of ecological colonialism as they unfold from indigenous voices, narration of experiences and memories of present-past traumas and living mechanisms for adaptation, land, and water protection. SO2 (WP4). To explore the ways in which such decolonial EJ frame equally embeds itself into the strife of feminist indigeneity. That is, to investigate how the colonial and ecological present realities simultaneously embed socialising and class processes of gendering and racializing a native other. This, in turn, allows an understanding of the historical and material positionality of feminist indigeneity as deeply ecological. SO3 (WP5). To explore the significance of grassroots decolonial/indigenous forms of EJ and the impact they could potentially have on top-down EJ mechanisms.

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