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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Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa / Ohio University Press series in ecology and history Introduction: Imperialism, Orientalism, and the Environment in the Middle East : History, Policy, Power, and Practice / Diana K. Davis -- "A Rebellion of Technology" : Development, Policing, and the British Arabian Imaginary / Priya Satia -- Restoring Roman Nature : French Identity and North African Environmental History / Diana K. Davis -- Body of Work : Water and Reimagining the Sahara in the Era of Decolonization / George R. Trumbull IV -- From the Bottom Up : The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Drafting a Map of Colonial Egypt : The 1902 Aswan Dam, Historical Imagination, and the Production of Agricultural Geography / Jennifer L. Derr -- Remapping the Nation, Critiquing the State : Environmental Narratives and Desert Land Reclamation in Egypt / Jeannie Sowers -- Salts, Soils, and (Un)Sustainabilities? Analyzing Narratives of Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey / Leila M. Harris -- Hydro-Imaginaries and the Construction of the Political Geography of the Jordan River : The Johnston Mission, 1953/56 / Samer Alatout -- Environmentalism Deferred : Nationalisms and Israeli/Palestinian Imaginaries / Shaul Cohen. |
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