AccordingLee
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Expatriated US postdoc in Europe. Overeducated hot takes, unpopular opinions, and unsolicited feedback. Shamelessly plugging the 'stack here: https://accordinglee.substack.com/ Subscriptions are free, quality is 100% guaranteed... to be inconsistent.
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The colonial concept of the empty desert is also linked to the averting of the Western eye from places like Palestine and Syria--which are clearly NOT deserts but the orientalising imagination firmly links Arab culture with the desert, and in voiding the desert, it voids Arab life.
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Another reference (if of interest to those tracking this) is the issue we did some time ago at the Journal of Architectural Education (before our parent organization censored our Palestine issue, fired our executive editor and our board resigned): Deserts. www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl... 🌵
Show PostYou should come talk to me, as I'm not arguing, I'm offering help & I'm an ally. I'm not insisting on piety, but on good use of language. For example Jane Wolff's remarkable book 'Bay Lexicon' gives San Franciscans the right language to describe their place & thus to speak for & advocate for it.
Show PostIf you follow the thread some of the nuance unfolds. Thanks for insisting on robust posting!
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