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Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
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Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Ecology and History
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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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