Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria
In Algeria’s M’zab Valley, the skills, knowledge, values, and rules of common resources management for surface and groundwater have been transmitted for centuries. Young people have traditionally learned agricultural and water distribution tasks through oral instruction and field observations from a...
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| author | Hamamouche, Meriem Farah Fantini, Emanuele Saidani, Mohamed Amine Khouadja, Mohammed |
| author_browse | Fantini, Emanuele Hamamouche, Meriem Farah Khouadja, Mohammed Saidani, Mohamed Amine |
| author_facet | Hamamouche, Meriem Farah Fantini, Emanuele Saidani, Mohamed Amine Khouadja, Mohammed |
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| description | In Algeria’s M’zab Valley, the skills, knowledge, values, and rules of common resources management for surface and groundwater have been transmitted for centuries. Young people have traditionally learned agricultural and water distribution tasks through oral instruction and field observations from a very young age. However, this intergenerational continuity now faces challenges. Climate change has altered the water cycle, leading to water scarcity that has further disrupted collective organisation. Younger generations have lost interest in their traditional water governance knowledge. Local traditional knowledge holders approached the researchers with a request to involve young people in the management and preservation of common water resources. We responded with a participatory visual approach that integrates different forms of knowledge, including a documentary made by professional researchers and grassroots videos produced by four young scouts in a M’zab oasis community. The participatory video experience enabled the scouts and the other research participants to remember the past, by transmitting traditional ecological knowledge, to document the present, by identifying problems, and to imagine future by pointing at alternative solutions. This experience allowed to bridge different knowledge systems traditional, scientific, and emotional and generations as a contribution to more sustainable common resource governance. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1521942025-12-08T10:29:22Z Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria Hamamouche, Meriem Farah Fantini, Emanuele Saidani, Mohamed Amine Khouadja, Mohammed climate change capacity development groundwater management research youth In Algeria’s M’zab Valley, the skills, knowledge, values, and rules of common resources management for surface and groundwater have been transmitted for centuries. Young people have traditionally learned agricultural and water distribution tasks through oral instruction and field observations from a very young age. However, this intergenerational continuity now faces challenges. Climate change has altered the water cycle, leading to water scarcity that has further disrupted collective organisation. Younger generations have lost interest in their traditional water governance knowledge. Local traditional knowledge holders approached the researchers with a request to involve young people in the management and preservation of common water resources. We responded with a participatory visual approach that integrates different forms of knowledge, including a documentary made by professional researchers and grassroots videos produced by four young scouts in a M’zab oasis community. The participatory video experience enabled the scouts and the other research participants to remember the past, by transmitting traditional ecological knowledge, to document the present, by identifying problems, and to imagine future by pointing at alternative solutions. This experience allowed to bridge different knowledge systems traditional, scientific, and emotional and generations as a contribution to more sustainable common resource governance. 2024 2024-09-12T14:30:00Z 2024-09-12T14:30:00Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152194 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136518 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1347 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1316 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1317 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1363 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1350 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1313 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1323 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1322 https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1336 https://thecommonsjournal.org/collections/governgroundwater Open Access Ubiquity Press, Ltd. Hamamouche, Meriem Farah; Fantini, Emanuele; Saidani, Mohamed Amine; and Khouadja, Mohammed. 2024. Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria. International Journal of the Commons 18(1): 490–506. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1363 |
| spellingShingle | climate change capacity development groundwater management research youth Hamamouche, Meriem Farah Fantini, Emanuele Saidani, Mohamed Amine Khouadja, Mohammed Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria |
| title | Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria |
| title_full | Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria |
| title_fullStr | Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria |
| title_short | Participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria |
| title_sort | participatory video on groundwater governance with youth in the m zab valley algeria |
| topic | climate change capacity development groundwater management research youth |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152194 |
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