The French Department presents
Mohamed Amer Meziane, Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities, Brown University:
“Ecologies of Liberation: An Afro-Arab Perspective on the Planetary.”
“We often tend to reduce the analysis of global warming to a single cause: capitalism for some, colonialism for others. But the history of ecosystem destruction is neither linear nor homogeneous, thus complicating the idea of a single culprit for the current crisis. It is experienced across a multiplicity of spaces that offer different perspectives on the Anthropocene, once we challenge the myth that humanity was responsible for the shift to a carbon-based world. The questions we will explore are the following: Is there an Afro-Arab ecology? What does it mean to think about extractivism from the perspective of alternative geographies and beyond the dominant, pre-established, paradigms Can the philosophy of history – a discipline invented in Ifriqiya by Ibn Khaldūn – be reactivated in light of current cosmopolitical issues? “