عنوان

Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa /

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0821419749

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0821420402

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9780821419748

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9780821420409

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by Diana K. Davis and Edmund Burke III ; with an afterword by Timothy Mitchell

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Athens, Ohio :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Ohio University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2011

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiv, 286 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, maps ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

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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متن يادداشت

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

عنوان

Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa.

موضوع مستند نشده

Human ecology-- Africa, North-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Human ecology-- Middle East-- History

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Africa, North, Environmental conditions

موضوع مستند نشده

Africa, North, Environmental conditions, Historiography

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France, Colonies, History

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Great Britain, Colonies, History

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Middle East, Environmental conditions

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle East, Environmental conditions, Historiography

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Middle East, Foreign public opinion, British

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle East, Foreign public opinion, French

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شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Burke, Edmund,1940-

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Davis, Diana K

تاريخ عمليات

20180830083158.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

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