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Owain Lawson
Cardiff University
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Room 5.13, John Percival Building, Cardiff University
Colum Drive
Cardiff CF10 3EU
United Kingdom
ABOUT
Owain Lawson is a Doctoral Candidate in History at Columbia University. He is a historian of environment, technology, and development in the twentieth-century Middle East. His dissertation examines the history of projects to develop the Litani river in Lebanon from 1920-1978.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Environment
History Of Science
Development
Technology
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Syria
Palestine
Europe
Specialties
Science And Technology In Lebanon, 1930-1965
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
English (native)
Abstracts
"Our Nation, Predestined by Nature": Constructing National, Natural, and Touristic Spaces in Mandate Lebanon Phase "A": Redesigning the Litani River, 1948-1956 "Sisters in Misery": Rural and Urban Effects of the Litani Project, 1955-1965 Power Failures: Narrating the Litani Disaster, 1958-1962 A National Vocation: Engineering Nature and State in Lebanon’s Merchant Republic Policing the Litani: Genealogies of Environmental Crime in Lebanon Technopolitics and Vernacular Development in Postcolonial Lebanon