“Coalonialism”
Tel Aviv Review
English - August 29, 2022 07:07 - 41 minutes - 39.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 138 ratingsJudaism Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture interview israel radio academic debate jewish longform scholars Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Prof. On Barak of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University discusses his book, Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization.
He takes on a historical journey to think of energy in the historical context of the making of the Middle East as a region, during the long 19th century. Instead of thinking that we are in a transition from coal to oil to cleaner energies, he argues, we need to understand the persistence of coal in the Middle East and how our reliance on it has shaped our politics, economics and culture.