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A thread of examples of environmental Orientalism
Black Hawk Down: White people policing over populated native societies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGaFGgjVY_Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
"Made in Israel: Water" : European Settler colonies using superior technology to manage environmental water resources in a manner that the natives could not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7G9v6JdYwc">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
A Neom promotional film. European fantasies of a desert in which one can be reborn in a unpopulated pristine environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcneFdW3cG4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
"Mad Max Fury Road" The Asiatic Mode of Production. Despotism in a hydraulic society and environmental determinism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d605rM0U3x0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
UAE agribusiness company promotional video. European& #39;s using technology to master and control the desert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajiO7Phcqo">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
"The Sheltering Sky" White people seduced by the beauty of the desert and sexual fantasies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVuyOcQRRHI">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
The English Patient. A love affair that ends in tragedy in the desert as a metaphor for the end of empire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MVYKqtAMA?">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
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