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War and Geos: The Ecological Aftermaths and Beforemaths of the War on Gaza

Beginn: Ende: Veranstaltungsort: TU Dortmund, Emil-Figge-Straße 50, Hörsaal 1
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  • English Language Events
  • Vortrag
As part of the lecture series “Gaza im Blick”, Dr. Mark Griffiths from Newcastle University, UK, will provide insights into the environmental damages preceding and following war. The lecture series is organized by the Department for Protestant Theology.

The talk examines war-earth relations by journeying from the aftermaths of war – bombed-out landscapes, depleted ecosystems, and public health crises – to the “beforemaths”, spaces that are under-studied yet instrumental in the preparatory phases of war. In Gaza, Dr. Griffiths argues, military operations carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have left harmful residues in the landscape, typically the heavy metals of munitions that seep into the earth. These metals then are extracted from the earth, but often at a similar cost to ecological and human health. For example, weapons companies source raw materials from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda where mining communities would be subject to similar patterns of long-term harm as those in Gaza. Dr. Griffith calls this a beforemath of war, a site of military violence that reveals a doubly destructive relation between war and earth where practices of extracting and depositing minerals distribute widespread violence across large tracts of the planet.

Mark Griffiths is Reader in Political Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. Dr. Griffiths is principal investigator on the five-year (2023-2028) UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) project “War and Geos: the environmental legacies of militarism” funded by Horizon Europe.

Lecture Series

The lecture series “Gaza im Blick” was developed in part at the suggestion of students and aims to provide scientifically sound educational work on the Middle East conflict. It deals with topics such as culture, nature, antisemitism, media and reporting, international law and much more.

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