Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface by Edmund Burke III ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction.Imperialism, Orientalism, and the Environment in the Middle East History, Policy, Power, and Practice Diana K. Davis 1 Chapter 1. “A Rebellion of Technology” Development, Policing, and the British Arabian Imaginary Priya Satia 23 Chapter 2. Restoring Roman Nature French Identity and North African Environmental History Diana K. Davis 60 Chapter 3. Body of Work Water and Reimagining the Sahara in the Era of Decolonization George R. Trumbull IV 87 Chapter 4. From the Bottom Up The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt Alan Mikhail 113 Chapter 5. Drafting a Map of Colonial Egypt The 1902 Aswan Dam, Historical Imagination, and the Production of Agricultural Geography Jennifer L. Derr 136 vi | Contents Chapter 6. Remapping the Nation, Critiquing the State Environmental Narratives and Desert Land Reclamation in Egypt Jeannie Sowers 158 Chapter 7. Salts, Soils, and (Un)Sustainabilities? Analyzing Narratives of Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey Leila M. Harris 192 Chapter 8. Hydro-Imaginaries and the Construction of the Political Geography of the Jordan River The Johnston Mission, 1953–56 Samer Alatout 218 Chapter 9. Environmentalism Deferred Nationalisms and Israeli/Palestinian Imaginaries Shaul Cohen 246 Afterword Timothy Mitchell 265 Contributors 275 Index 279 ...