Challenging hydro-hegemony: hydro-politics and local resistance in the Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories
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Challenging hydro-hegemony : hydro-politics and local resistance in the Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories. / Wessels, Josepha Ivanka.
In: International Journal of Environmental Studies, Vol. 72, No. 4, 19.05.2015, p. 601-623.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Challenging hydro-hegemony
T2 - hydro-politics and local resistance in the Golan Heights and the Palestinian territories
AU - Wessels, Josepha Ivanka
N1 - Hydro-hegemony, Israel, Palestine, Syria
PY - 2015/5/19
Y1 - 2015/5/19
N2 - Hydro-hegemonic praxis defines much of Israel’s occupation that has continued since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Two empirical case studies of hydro-hegemony and counter-hegemony at local level are compared in this paper: the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Both case studies show that control over water resources and supply provides political power over others at local level. Yet non-violent resistance can be observed in these border areas. In border areas between Israel, Syria and Palestine, control over access and water supply plays an important role in the ability of Israel to exercise hegemonic power in daily hydro-politics, which in the long term is detrimental for the people and the environment and disrupts the hydrological balance in the entire Jordan River basin.
AB - Hydro-hegemonic praxis defines much of Israel’s occupation that has continued since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Two empirical case studies of hydro-hegemony and counter-hegemony at local level are compared in this paper: the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Both case studies show that control over water resources and supply provides political power over others at local level. Yet non-violent resistance can be observed in these border areas. In border areas between Israel, Syria and Palestine, control over access and water supply plays an important role in the ability of Israel to exercise hegemonic power in daily hydro-politics, which in the long term is detrimental for the people and the environment and disrupts the hydrological balance in the entire Jordan River basin.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Israel
KW - palestine
KW - Hydrohegemony
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Israel
KW - palestine
KW - Hydrohegemony
U2 - 10.1080/00207233.2015.1041836
DO - 10.1080/00207233.2015.1041836
M3 - Journal article
VL - 72
SP - 601
EP - 623
JO - International Journal of Environmental Studies
JF - International Journal of Environmental Studies
SN - 0020-7233
IS - 4
ER -
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