Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Contributors

Contributors Samer Alatout is an associate professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Graduate Program of Sociology, and the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also affiliated with the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and the Center for Culture, History, and Environment. His research focus is on the relationship between knowledge production and relations of power. He has published more than a dozen articles in leading journals on both water and environmental conflicts in the Middle East and on the links between environmental politics and social theories of power and government. His work has been recognized with grants from the Fulbright Program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Most recently he shifted his attention to the study of environmental politics in border regions such as the U.S./Mexico and Palestine/Israel borders. Edmund (“Terry”) Burke III is Research Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he directs the Center for World History. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam, 1890– 1925 (University of California Press, 2012); World History: The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students, coauthored with Ross E. Dunn and David G. Christian (National Center for History in the Schools, 2009); The Environment and World History, 1500–2000, edited with Kenneth Pomeranz (University of California Press, 2009); and Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics, edited with David Prochaska (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).  | Contributors Shaul Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and a co-director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Oregon. He is a Carnegie fellow in international ethics. His work focuses on developing models for conflict resolution and territorial sharing in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and other parts of the world. He is the author of several books, including The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery (University of Chicago Press, 1993) and Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America (University of California Press, 2004), in addition to many articles and book chapters. Diana K. Davis, a geographer and veterinarian, is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California at Davis. Her first book, Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Ohio University Press, 2007), was awarded the George Perkins Marsh Prize by the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) as well as the Meridian Prize and the Blaut Award by the Association of American Geographers (AAG). She has also published numerous articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and an ACLS Ryskamp fellowship for her new book project, Imperialism and Environmental History in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press). Jennifer L. Derr is an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history and environmental and urban studies at Bard College. She is currently completing a manuscript on the production of agricultural geography and its relation to the practice of the state in Egypt during the British colonial period.She has been awarded grants from the Fulbright-Hays Commission, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Leila M. Harris is a sociocultural and political geographer specializing in issues related to environment, gender, and development. She is an assistant professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and the Center for Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia. Much of her work has focused on water politics in the Middle East, gender and socio-spatial difference, and political and scalar dimensions of the large-scale transformation of the Tigris and Euphrates Riverbasin.Arecentbookprojectfocusesonthemesofnarrative,citizenship, Contributors |  and socio-spatial difference in relation to recent water governance shifts in the Global South. She has published in numerous highly ranked journals, including Environment and Planning D, World Development, Political Geography, Geoforum, and Gender, Place, and Culture. She has received a number of honors, including residence as a MacArthur scholar while at the University of Minnesota and currently as a Peter Wall scholar at the University of...