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This lecture, 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. By arguing that modernity, global capitalism, environmental destruction and epistemic erasure remain inseparable from imperial legacies that favor new forms of ecocide and green colonialism, it calls for rethinking security as justice.
Speaker:
Dr Marwa Daoudy
Discussant:
Dr Jasmine K Gani
Chair:
Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth
#Capitalism #Events #London
Full details/attend: lse.ac.uk/events/plp-11-june
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This lecture, 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. By arguing that modernity, global capitalism, environmental destruction and epistemic erasure remain inseparable from imperial legacies that favor new forms of ecocide and green colonialism, it calls for rethinking security as justice.
Speaker:
Dr Marwa Daoudy
Discussant:
Dr Jasmine K Gani
Chair:
Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth
#Capitalism #Events #London
Full details/attend: lse.ac.uk/events/plp-11-june
To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate.
Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo unsplash.com/photos/satellite-of-water-and-land-illustration-WOF7xn1antA by USGS unsplash.com/@usgs on Unsplash Unsplash.com/license
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