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