Author ORCID Identifier
Emily McKee: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5494-4873
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Abstract
As activists frame campaigns, their region's broader cultural and political context intercedes. In Israel and Palestine attempts to work across national lines and undertake activism that links ecological, economic, and social issues have long been stymied. This article examines how the fraught historical and contemporary relationships of Israelis and Palestinians with land bestow both flexibility and limitations on their framing of campaigns. In particular, it ethnographically analyzes the framing of two projects-the building of an eco-mosque and a Jordan River restoration effort-to examine how activists grapple with frame flexibility and its limits. It finds that an Israeli tendency to deterritorialize environmental issues and curb environmental campaigns that are too political conflicts with Palestinian criticism of apolitical frames because they euphemize violence and domination. These cases demonstrate how local connotations can make or break environmental campaigns. The eco-adage, Think global, act local is not enough. One must think local, too.
First Page
449
Last Page
470
DOI
10.1017/S0020743818000806
Publication Date
8-1-2018
Recommended Citation
McKee, Emily, "Environmental Framing and Its Limits: Campaigns in Palestine and Israel" (2018). Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications. 1222.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allfaculty-peerpub/1222
Department
Department of Anthropology
ISSN
00207438
Comments
This article has been published in a revised form in International Journal of Middle East Studies https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743818000806. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © Emily McKee