DESERTS ARE NOT EMPTY

Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as empty spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the regime of emptiness has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. Deserts Are Not Empty challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid landswhich comprise approximately one-third of the Earths la...[Read more]