Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common...
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2021
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| description | The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to critically examine culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the peoples of the region. The contributors expose many of the questionable policies and practices born of these environmental imaginaries and related histories that have been utilized in the region since the colonial period. They further reveal how power, in the form of development programs, notions of nationalism, and hydrological maps, for instance, relates to environmental knowledge production.
Contributors: Samer Alatout, Edmund Burke III, Shaul Cohen, Diana K. Davis, Jennifer L. Derr, Leila M. Harris, Alan Mikhail, Timothy Mitchell, Priya Satia, Jeannie Sowers, and George R. Trumbull IV |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-724192025-07-31T17:12:58Z Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa Burke, Edmund Davis, Diana K. History World History Africa Political Science Public Policy Environmental Policy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to critically examine culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the peoples of the region. The contributors expose many of the questionable policies and practices born of these environmental imaginaries and related histories that have been utilized in the region since the colonial period. They further reveal how power, in the form of development programs, notions of nationalism, and hydrological maps, for instance, relates to environmental knowledge production. Contributors: Samer Alatout, Edmund Burke III, Shaul Cohen, Diana K. Davis, Jennifer L. Derr, Leila M. Harris, Alan Mikhail, Timothy Mitchell, Priya Satia, Jeannie Sowers, and George R. Trumbull IV 2021-10-20T04:03:28Z 2021-10-20T04:03:28Z 2021-10-19T05:32:51Z 2011 book OCN: 768572206 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51086 9780821444252 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72419 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51086/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51086/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51086/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51086/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51086/1/external_content.pdf Ohio University Press Ohio University Press 79b72935-4d71-4d6b-bcd1-08099da31d02 9780821444252 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Ohio University Press open access |
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| title | Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa |
| title_full | Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa |
| title_fullStr | Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa |
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| title_short | Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa |
| title_sort | environmental imaginaries of the middle east and north africa |
| topic | History World History Africa Political Science Public Policy Environmental Policy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols |
| topic_facet | History World History Africa Political Science Public Policy Environmental Policy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy and protocols |
| url | OCN: 768572206 |