Deen Sharp, London School of Economics and Political Science The climate emergency is an urban emergency. Cities, and the processes…
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Living with a Future Submergence: Dams, Temporality and Sacrifice in Northeastern Turkey
Ekin Kurtiç, Brandeis University The number 711 is inscribed in several locations, on the rugged mountains, on the doors and…
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Jérémie Langlois, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown University When do preexisting environmental demands enter the discourse of…
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Taraf Abu Hamdan, Central European University “The wonder of the desert is that is barren, and lacks vegetation, and it…
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In February 2022, POMEPS convened a virtual workshop bringing together interdisciplinary contributions from anthropology, public health, political science, history, and…
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The Arab Network for Political Science, in cooperation with the University of the Southern Mediterranean in Tunisia, announces an invitation…
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Jannis Julien Grimm of the Freie University of Berlin joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss his new…
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Jillian Schwedler of Hunter College joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss her new book, Protesting Jordan: Geographies…
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Michael Provence of University of California San Diego joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss his new book,…
Continue ReadingMarketing Democracy, Who Votes After a Coup, and Egyptian Prisoners (S. 11, Ep. 27)
Erin Snider of Texas A&M University joins Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast to discuss her new book, Marketing Democracy:…
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