Day: January 22, 2021
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January 22, 2021
Thanks to Turkay Gasimova, a 2020 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post.
In his book, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, Timothy Mitchell challenges traditional knowledge of the history of the Middle East, energy sources, and environmental politics.
Mitchell who had previously written a remarkable book on the colonization of Egypt, for some years spent time in the Middle East,
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