Watson Events

This workshop will explore the intersection between political ecology and new approaches to political economy in the context of empire and colonialism in the Middle East. Covering an array of geographies and shifting political contexts from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, participants will examine the relationship between new approaches to arranging flows of capital or finance and the development and management of environmental resources. In particular, the presentations will consider how these interactions have impacted approaches to governance, contributed to a politics of exclusion or inclusion, and reconfigured networks on multiple scales. Two sessions of paper presentations will be followed by an afternoon roundtable in which we will discuss how we can best move forward in pursuing research on this area in emerging scholarship.

Center for Middle East Studies

Sponsored by a Watson Institute Collaboration grant and Middle East Studies.