Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa / / edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell.
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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| Superior document: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0821444255 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell. |