Arabic and Decolonial Transmission in the Ecological Humanities: Knowledge Production in Post-Ottoman Beirut
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: School of English
Abstract
This doctoral research project aims to examine environmental and cultural historiography in post-Ottoman Beirut. It also seeks to analyze the refractions therein of Arabic eco-literary
heritages that pre-date the Enlightenment vis-à-vis the ascendance of the "Environmental Humanities." Departing from an investigation of public and private university archives from
the mid-twentieth century, wherein I will focus on the faculties of pedagogy, humanities, and agriculture, the project intends to illuminate a history of transmission of and changes in
civilizational ecology in the wake of imperial rupture.
heritages that pre-date the Enlightenment vis-à-vis the ascendance of the "Environmental Humanities." Departing from an investigation of public and private university archives from
the mid-twentieth century, wherein I will focus on the faculties of pedagogy, humanities, and agriculture, the project intends to illuminate a history of transmission of and changes in
civilizational ecology in the wake of imperial rupture.