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JEWISH, ISLAMIC AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES (L75)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2018
L75 JINE 390Topics in JINES: Slow Violence and the Environment in the Modern Middle East3.0 Units
Description:While oil and violent conflict structure contemporary accounts and imaginaries of the Middle East, less attention is paid to the kinds of environments that capitalist extraction, imperialist ideologies, and militarized struggles over land and power produce in the Middle East and to the slow forms of violent they inflict on humans and non-humans alike. How have ideas about Middle Eastern environments-as barren desert or as fertile crescent-given rise to particular kinds of violent practices, contaminated places, and degraded lives? In what ways has environmental transformation been both the target and effect of (post)colonial, capitalist, and state projects across the Middle East? And how do people actually inhabit, represent, and resist these violent processes? To answer these questions, we approach violence through postcolonial theorist Rob Nixon's concept of slow violence. Against the assumption that violence is fast and spectacular, slow violence is the gradual and unevenly dispersed violence of global climate change, of fossil fuel dependency, and of toxic remnants of war. From the oil fields and desalination plants of Saudi Arabia to the "blooming" desert of Israel to the dried up river beds of Syria to the cluster bomb fields of Lebanon, we survey slow violence in the Middle East to understand the conditions that produced it, how it transforms the environment, and its racialized and gendered distributions. At the same time, we attend to the voices that inhabit the environments produced by slow violence to better understand how the multiple and overlapping temporalites of violence are lived in and the kinds of futures that are imagined and demanded. Open to all undergraduates, no prerequisites required.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:L75 590A  L97 3901  U94 390Frequency:Annually / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----4:00P-5:30PEads / 215 TouhouliotisMay 4 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM18110
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