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Mi.07Mai202518:30 UhrU Dortmund, EF50 / HS1
War and Geos: The Ecological Aftermaths and Beforemaths of the War on Gaza
This talk considers war-earth relations by journeying from the aftermaths of war - bombed-out landscapes, depleted ecosystems, and public health crises –
to the “beforemaths”, spaces that are under-studied yet instrumental in the
preparatory phases of war. In Gaza, military operations carried out by Israel
have leave harmful residues in the landscape, typically the heavy metals of
munitions that seep and leach in the earth. Those metals are, of course,
extracted from the earth, often at similar cost to ecological and human health.
For instance, weapons companies source raw materials from the DRC and
Rwanda where mining communities are subject to similar patterns of long-term
harm as those in Gaza. This is a beforemath of war, a site of military violence
that reveals a doubly destructive relation between war and earth where
practices of extracting and depositing minerals distribute widespread violence
across large tracts of the planet.Der Referent: Mark Griffiths is Reader in Political Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University (UK). Dr Griffiths is PI on the 5-year (2023-2028) UKRI Horizon Europe-funded project “War and Geos: the environmental legacies of militarism."
Die Vortragsreihe „Gaza im Blick“ wurde erarbeitet auch auf Anregung von Studierenden und hat die Intention, wissenschaftlich fundierte Aufklärungsarbeit zum Nahostkonflikt zu leisten. Es geht um Themen wie Kultur, Natur, Antisemitismus, Medien und Berichterstattung, Völkerrecht und vieles mehr. Für Rückfragen zur Vortragsreihe „Gaza im Blick“ wenden Sie sich an:
sara.kipfer[at]tu-dortmund.de