JHI Undergraduate Fellow
Jenna Barhoush is entering her fourth year with a double major in Environmental Studies and Public Policy, and a minor in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity. She has been a part of the U of T Amnesty International publications team for two years, and has worked as a research assistant on a humanities project for the past year. Her experience at the University has made her realize her passion for writing about issues of political, social, and environmental injustices. Jenna hopes to pursue a future in research and justice advocacy by taking her education further with graduate school and law school.
Fellowship Research Project—The Absence of the Palestinian: Erasing a People through a System of Environmental Manipulation
This research project will explore the ways in which Israel’s contemporary strategies of environmental manipulation further juxtapose the absence of the Palestinian with the presence of the Israeli. The research will begin by establishing the historical and geographic context of the region, followed by an investigation of Israeli strategies of altering the environment to erase the Palestinian, and finally an analysis on the multiple dimensions of absence that result from environmental manipulation. The following research question will be addressed: To what extent have the intended and consequential effects of Israel’s environmental manipulation contributed to the absence of the Palestinian?