Exploring the framings of water scarcity in Palestinian textbooks

ABSTRACT

Water scarcity in Palestine is a top national priority issue. Extensive research has analysed the causes of water scarcity in Palestine, focusing on negotiations, the occupation, climate change, environmental conditions, the role of international donors and funders, and mismanagement. Nevertheless, how these representations are reflected in Palestinian textbooks has not been investigated. However, textbooks are key because they reflect the governmental position and dominant discourses and forge future generations’ understandings of water issues. This paper takes textbooks as a case study to analyse the dominant discourses of water scarcity in Palestine.

KEYWORDS:

• Palestine
• water scarcity
• textbooks
• discourse analysis
• education

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Hussam Hussein

Hussam Hussein is the Executive Director of Partnerships for Development of the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) of Jordan. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. He obtained his PhD in International Development from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Kholoud Al-Ajarma

Kholoud Al-Ajarma is lecturer in the Globalized Muslim World at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and Comparative Study of Religion from the University of Groningen (Netherlands). She has worked in the fields of anthropology, Islam, refugee studies, gender, youth leadership, water and migration in Palestine and several countries of the Mediterranean region.