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Owain Lawson
Lehigh University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Email: [email protected]
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
Egypt
Europe
Lebanon
Palestine
Syria
Specialties
Environmental History Of The Middle East & North Africa, 20th Century
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 Organized Abandonment and Political Ecology in Postcolonial Lebanon