The entanglement of conflict and environmental change is undeniable. Yet, for the most part, their relationship remains depoliticized and overlooked in international debates on climate change. Likewise, the bio-ecological violence of conflict, its forms, scales, and cascading force, whether immediate and visible or slow and imperceptible, are left out of mainstream geopolitical narrations. Meanwhile, there are numerous theories about how environmental stress, exacerbated by climate change and spatial violence, has become a powerful force shaping politics, social relations, and new patterns of settlement in the twenty-first century.
Organized by Assistant Professor of Urban + Environmental Planning Ghazal Jafari, this symposium invites scholars and storytellers concerned with conflict zones, urban peripheries, black market geographies, migration corridors, and war ecologies in West Asia to countermap the landscapes and environments of conflict. It aims to transcend the geopolitical oversimplifications and propagandist mechanisms of censorship, to reveal the complexities and contradictions of conflicts, and to foreground collective survival, resurgence, and self-determination outside the frame of international geopolitics.
Speakers
Kali Rubaii, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
Bridget Guarasci, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College
Sana Chavoshian, Research Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Asma Mehan, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Texas Tech University
Moderator
Tessa Farmer, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies, University of Virginia
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