The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Marwa DaoudyAssociate Professor of International Relations and the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
- Location
- London School of Economics (LSE)
- Organisation
- London School of Economics
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About this talk
This lecture by Marwa Daoudy, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the entanglement of colonialism, capitalism, and environmental exploitation that has shaped the modern global order in ways that continue to structure global inequality. Mainstream approaches in international relations often obscure the violent histories of dispossession, domination, and extractive economies that drive contemporary political and ecological crises, producing racialized geographies of land, resources, labour and environment that endure. Drawing on Fred Halliday's critique of narratives that portray the Arab world as inherently locked in conflict, economic failure, or cultural clashes, this lecture situates climate and human vulnerabilities within the region's (settler-) colonial, extractivist or war-torn past and present in contexts such Algeria, Palestine and Syria. Following the lecture, we will host a reception in celebration of what would have been Fred Halliday's 80th birthday, recognising his enduring contribution to the Department and the field of International Relations.
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