Land in Revolt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12955542 |
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| Authors | Rachel Webb Jekanowski (0000-0003-0004-8293, Concordia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 248-273 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1873-9857 • E-ISSN: 1873-9865 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18739865-01103003 |
| OpenAlex | W2948617881 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
In this article, I examine the politicization of natural resources like water and land, and the wider entanglement of environments and politics, in Egyptian cinematic imaginaries. I focus on Youssef Chahine’s film al-Ard (The land, 1969) and its politicization of agricultural land during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1954–1970) and the British colonial occupation of Egypt (1882–1956). Because histories of colonialism and nationalism in the Arab world are rooted in the economic and political exploitation of material resources (including land, water, and people), I draw on eco-criticism as a method of critical reading to analyze the film’s depictions of these configurations of political power and resource management. I argue that al-Ard roots its depiction of the resistance of the Egyptian peasantry (fellahin) in environmental terms, namely, restrictions to resource access and the affective relationships of the peasants to the land. By tracing these imbrications, I seek to relocate environmental concerns in scholarship on political resistance with reference to Nasser-era cinema
Art · Art history · Colonialism · Criticism · Depiction · Literature · Movie theater · Nationalism · Natural resource · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Environmentalism and Postcolonialism
The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema
Broken Heart of the City
Three Tales of Obsession
Coalitions for Dispossession and Networks of Resistance? Land, Politics and Agrarian Reform in Egypt
I Have One Daughter and That Is Egyptian Cinema”
Environment and Empire
Toward an African Ecocriticism
Against Authenticity
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Vibrant Matter
| Highly cited | No |
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