Environmental Justice in the Middle East: Activism, Resistance, and Decolonisation (Video)
Part of Decolonising LSE’s 2020-21 Event Series
This roundtable focuses on environmental justice, analysing the ways in which approaches to environmental studies across disciplines ranging from international law to geography and urban planning have traditionally overlooked and under-emphasised the critical roles of communities directly impacted by environmental injustice.
Focusing on environmental justice struggles in locations including Palestine, the Golan Heights, Lebanon, and Iraq, this conversation will explore transnational linkages between efforts and struggles in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere. Speakers will discuss the power of community-driven activism, organising, and resistance to forms of environmental injustice such as water access denial, land dispossession, and forced exposure to toxins. The discussion will address how inclusive cities are a core compone