Muna Dajani

Dr. Muna Dajani is a Research Fellow in Environment at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her expertise includes political ecology, water governance, and settler colonialism. Previously, she held roles as Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University and worked at the University of East Anglia’s Water Security Research Centre. She earned her PhD from LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment.

• Education: PhD in Geography and Environment, LSE

Her research focuses on decolonial frameworks, environmental justice, and contested water governance in regions like Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. She has led projects such as 'Mapping Memories of Resistance' and co-edited The Untold Story of the Golan Heights. Her work explores grassroots groundwater governance, traditional knowledge, and transboundary river basins.

Dajani has published in Political Geography, Antipode, and Environment and Planning E, and authored non-academic works on Palestinian consumer ethics and policy briefs on climate advocacy. She collaborates with institutions like Birzeit University and Golan Heights-based Al-Marsad, and engages in public discourse on decolonizing academia and climate justice.