Down to the River: Identity, Citizenship, Security, Borders and Water at the occupied Golan Heights
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Down to the River : Identity, Citizenship, Security, Borders and Water at the occupied Golan Heights. / Wessels, Josepha Ivanka.
In: Middle East Critique, Vol. 24, No. 3, 29.07.2015, p. 269-287.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Down to the River
T2 - Identity, Citizenship, Security, Borders and Water at the occupied Golan Heights
AU - Wessels, Josepha Ivanka
PY - 2015/7/29
Y1 - 2015/7/29
N2 - Currently there is no coherent or sustainable water cooperation among the five states—Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories and Syria—that share the Jordan River. Why do people not cooperate on sustainable river basin management, even if it seems the most rational course from the perspective of economic benefits? I hypothesize that the political uses of citizenship, identity and security at the local level hamper cooperation at the basin level and ignore cognitive dimensions of violence and conflict. In this article, I have chosen the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as a case study to illustrate hydropolitics in praxis, because the political future of this particular area in many respects affects the sustainable future of the Jordan River Basin and the entire Levant.
AB - Currently there is no coherent or sustainable water cooperation among the five states—Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories and Syria—that share the Jordan River. Why do people not cooperate on sustainable river basin management, even if it seems the most rational course from the perspective of economic benefits? I hypothesize that the political uses of citizenship, identity and security at the local level hamper cooperation at the basin level and ignore cognitive dimensions of violence and conflict. In this article, I have chosen the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as a case study to illustrate hydropolitics in praxis, because the political future of this particular area in many respects affects the sustainable future of the Jordan River Basin and the entire Levant.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Syria
KW - Water governance
KW - Security
KW - Citizenship
KW - Cognitive Theory
KW - Golan
KW - hydro-politics
KW - Identity
KW - Israel
KW - Rational choice
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Syria
KW - Israel
KW - Cognitive Theory
KW - Security
KW - Identity
KW - Water
U2 - 10.1080/19436149.2015.1046709
DO - 10.1080/19436149.2015.1046709
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 269
EP - 287
JO - Middle East Critique
JF - Middle East Critique
SN - 1943-6149
IS - 3
ER -
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