Nisreen Mazzawi
I started my career as an environmental activist and embraced environmental feminist thinking. Among the Jews, I was expected to speak only of Arabs, and among the Arabs, environmental issues were seen as issues of white privileged persons. To break this entanglement, in 2008 I turned to free and independent writing. For years the blog has been called "Environmental Issues from a Political, Social, Economic and Feminist Perspective". Later on I chose the name "Sanasel" (terraces in Arabic) to be a name for the blog, where the agricultural system of the terraces works in harmony between the plots of land in which agriculture is diversified and each of them is irrigated through the water that naturally moves from one to another, thus forming a sustainable organic agricultural system that preserves the soil and prevents erosion. This is how our environmental, political, social, economic and feminist issues are all organically linked together, and any attempt to separate them will result in the collapse of the entire system.
The blog is mainly written in Arabic. Easy, simple, direct and thus effective to reach intended audience.
The blog’s cover photo is of the Terraces of the Palestinian village Battir. The photo is taken by Abby Zimet. You can read more about the village Battir here and here.
Anthropologist and feminist activist. A consultant and trainer on projects related to social, economic and environmental justice in the Palestinian society in Israel. Nisreen works in managing and developing projects in civil society institutions in the fields of human rights, democracy and environmental education.
Blogging since 2008.
The Blog: Sanasel
I started my career as an environmental activist and embraced environmental feminist thinking. Among the Jews, I was expected to speak only of Arabs, and among the Arabs, environmental issues were seen as issues of white privileged persons. To break this entanglement, in 2008 I turned to free and independent writing. For years the blog has been called "Environmental Issues from a Political, Social, Economic and Feminist Perspective". Later on I chose the name "Sanasel" (terraces in Arabic) to be a name for the blog, where the agricultural system of the terraces works in harmony between the plots of land in which agriculture is diversified and each of them is irrigated through the water that naturally moves from one to another, thus forming a sustainable organic agricultural system that preserves the soil and prevents erosion. This is how our environmental, political, social, economic and feminist issues are all organically linked together, and any attempt to separate them will result in the collapse of the entire system.
Feminist approach of the blog
Feminist perspectives are numerous, and the differences between them are vast, it includes radical, liberal, social, ecological, religious and more. The feminist approach adopted by this blog is one that opposes all forms of violence, oppression and hierarchy. This approach does not take off from a gender binary, but it does not ignore it. Hence, it does not demand equality, but condemns all forms of discrimination. The feminist approach of the blog is not satisfied with addressing local issues and engages with global issues on the basis that there is no separation between the local and the global. This approach does not see gender issues as feminist issues in their own right, but rather as part of a comprehensive political, economic and social system.
The concept of liberation in the blog
liberation from all forms of discrimination and oppression. Liberation from pollution, from racism, from slavery and from exploitation.
The economic approach of the blog
The blog adopts ecological economics approach that see endless economic growth in a non-endless world as a fundamental problem in all environmental issues. In terms of the relationship with the land, socialist economy does not differ from liberal capitalist economy. These may differ among themselves regarding property rights and control over the process and the means of production, but both their relation to the land is a relationship of exploitation and depletion that exceeds the Earth's endurance.
The political approach of the blog
Anti-colonial and anti-global-monocultural-hegemonic orientation.
The social approach of the blog
believes in human dignity, in the sanctity of life for all living beings , and in the sanctity of the universe.
The blog is mainly written in Arabic. Easy, simple, direct and thus effective to reach intended audience.
I believe the
knowledge I gain during the years can be
effective when it is available and shared with others in simple way. Blogging
is one way to do it.
The articles in the blog are licensed
under CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Publication for commercial purposes must be done in coordination with the author.
The Cover Photo
The blog’s cover photo is of the Terraces of the Palestinian village Battir. The photo is taken by Abby Zimet. You can read more about the village Battir here and here.
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