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at the time are are pretty great and [00:01:36.00] [00:01:36.00] often times efforts and they're a kind of efforts to try and create peace [00:01:45.03] [00:01:45.03] especially in the Middle East and how that oftentimes leads to more why [00:01:52.15] [00:01:52.15] so investors sort of the relatives ation of space that baby life memory and their [00:02:01.22] [00:02:01.22] creation and how it shapes the plane of our world threatenin societies for this [00:02:08.12] [00:02:08.12] no but spending organization of war and the spread of cultures [00:02:15.04] [00:02:15.07] I'm having the Borman and landscapes of underneath that the most militarized [00:02:20.11] [00:02:20.11] spatial manifestation of creating new liberal militants government cavity that [00:02:26.13] [00:02:26.13] I cult mentality mentality basically practice of military as a presidential [00:02:40.05] [00:02:40.17] so the road without trees in the middle east but one thing that had captured my [00:02:54.01] [00:02:54.01] attention [00:02:59.06] [00:03:15.01] to [00:03:19.14] [00:03:58.03] to do but he kind of modeled after the victory [00:04:07.04] [00:04:08.13] in countries butting out I'll come with something that's very much [00:04:16.03] [00:04:18.05] that but he did definitely get credit for that now what's interesting is Makia [00:04:25.17] [00:04:25.17] who wrote about the volume identity an entire book about the monument sort of [00:04:33.08] [00:04:33.08] throughout the country example kind of set the stage and [00:04:40.13] [00:04:40.13] uncovered and kind of brought to the mainstream kind of brutalities of sat [00:04:45.21] [00:04:45.21] down distribution then what happened was that she he kind of in his activism and [00:04:53.00] [00:04:53.00] also care for this country involved with the White House Office so in my work I [00:05:13.04] [00:05:13.04] look at different actors that are involved in creating Wars of course they [00:05:21.12] [00:05:21.12] are willing to look to for peace and he wanted peace for this country we've [00:05:25.20] [00:05:25.20] dealt with the Bellas bringing so much viable to larger but the end result of [00:05:31.09] [00:05:31.09] what came from the world we now know all of the kind of violence [00:05:37.00] [00:05:37.00] that was caused brought comments he member mchao himself saying that what [00:05:44.20] [00:05:44.20] has come down and the number of people died due to the war are much greater [00:05:51.03] [00:05:51.03] than what so I called for kind of an understanding [00:05:57.08] [00:05:57.08] of what is the cultural centric of warfare and in it I actually explained a [00:06:04.16] [00:06:04.16] particular type of word as a memory century war and so I focused on looking [00:06:10.10] [00:06:10.10] at memorials to understand what memory centric warfare is and how he had [00:06:16.16] [00:06:16.16] scholars actually played a role and very big role in that for we are the soldiers [00:06:24.05] [00:06:24.05] so understanding our law was very important in the kind of activity that [00:06:29.21] [00:06:29.21] we do as scholars so for them for the Iraq war specifically there was a very [00:06:40.10] [00:06:40.10] kind of comprehensive cultural warfare that was [00:06:45.09] [00:06:45.09] by lieutenant the leaders of the military and so I will cut some of the [00:06:54.20] [00:06:54.20] things here so a knowledge of cultural training can be as important as and [00:07:00.23] [00:07:00.23] sometimes even more important than knowledge of the geographic trends this [00:07:05.20] [00:07:05.20] observation acknowledges that people are in many respects that the decisive train [00:07:13.01] [00:07:13.01] and that we must study that train in the same way that we have always studied the [00:07:19.19] [00:07:19.19] geographic strength this is lieutenant David Beatrice the US [00:07:24.02] [00:07:24.02] Army conversion local resistance reinforced the importance of cultural [00:07:31.06] [00:07:31.06] knowledge for the occupying forces that thought to generate hegemonic [00:07:35.23] [00:07:35.23] appreciation for their presence in July 2014 retired [00:07:41.06] [00:07:41.06] major general Roberts tells our view that the conflict in the world requires [00:07:46.14] [00:07:46.14] an exceptional ability to understand people their culture and their [00:07:51.14] [00:07:51.14] motivations realizing the advantages the Pentagon's your strategy began taking a [00:07:58.07] [00:07:58.07] cultural turn by carving out an attack people in charge stark contrast to that [00:08:04.06] [00:08:04.06] of the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld heavy-handed approach which [00:08:10.17] [00:08:10.17] emphasized the aggressive military tactics the post Rockville Pentagon has [00:08:15.18] [00:08:15.18] advocated in providing cultural knowledge and infographics intelligence [00:08:21.22] [00:08:21.22] this cultural turn within DoD [00:08:26.16] [00:08:27.20] highlights efforts to understand adversary' societies and to recruit [00:08:34.04] [00:08:34.04] practitioners of culture notably anthropologists to help in the war [00:08:39.18] [00:08:39.18] effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan and so a lot of incentives were given to [00:08:45.19] [00:08:45.19] people in humanities such as anthropologists sociologists linguist to [00:08:53.16] [00:08:53.16] join paychecks up to up to $250,000 a year and [00:09:02.17] [00:09:03.04] hard to make for us it's not even close and I felt there is pretty good [00:09:09.07] [00:09:09.07] incentive to join that and also because the way to introduce is within that [00:09:14.23] [00:09:14.23] framing and so Mackay who advocated for for the war and actually gave speeches [00:09:30.06] [00:09:30.06] it's worthless being used to get their work point now continue to support the [00:09:35.21] [00:09:35.21] work and I focus on this is Cultural Center forever focused on memories and [00:09:40.22] [00:09:40.22] trade war because memory was used and the US presence in Iraq destroyed a lot [00:09:52.04] [00:09:52.04] of things you know the whole our place of Quran which was really really [00:09:57.07] [00:09:57.07] important sort of the important archive that would help all these historic [00:10:06.20] [00:10:06.20] documents would completely break down as well as many other important archives [00:10:12.18] [00:10:12.18] and news [00:10:15.04] [00:10:16.15] so a lot got destroyed culturally in what we call the cradle of civilization [00:10:23.07] [00:10:23.07] yet there were certain things that were preserved and the US military made sure [00:10:29.18] [00:10:29.18] to preserve them and victory art was one of them [00:10:32.19] [00:10:32.19] strangely so victory art was played right in the middle of the Green Zone [00:10:38.17] [00:10:38.17] the Green Zone was where the US Army Headquarters was set up forces chose [00:10:45.15] [00:10:45.15] that area and their art was really used you know in a way to justify them being [00:10:54.18] [00:10:54.18] there it showed for the bulker of the set down machine name how they were [00:11:00.04] [00:11:00.04] there to help but the the way you must interact with forces interacted with [00:11:07.03] [00:11:07.03] comments from Iranian soldiers who died during the war so it got pretty [00:11:13.06] [00:11:13.06] complicated and the u.s. now kind of took over and played the oppressive role [00:11:20.23] [00:11:20.23] of what technology student so it got pretty confusing at some point and [00:11:25.08] [00:11:25.08] plateful of course soldiers posing and this became the [00:11:30.00] [00:11:30.00] iconic image of war and so in going through the blogs and letters from [00:11:37.20] [00:11:37.20] emails from the soldiers in the war who always finding something with the [00:11:44.20] [00:11:44.20] victory arc so that was the icon and of course it helped keep the war going so a [00:11:54.02] [00:11:54.02] lot of time the indistinct tactic there you can see that soldier the army using [00:12:01.06] [00:12:01.06] that at the background it was kind of a justify air that thing that people held [00:12:05.12] [00:12:05.12] on to so that type of memory was used but what's really interesting is to [00:12:10.11] [00:12:10.11] understand that the process was very selective [00:12:13.03] [00:12:13.03] there were monument that were destroyed and there was no effort to try and [00:12:17.20] [00:12:17.20] preserve them rebuilt them and one of them was a monument that was kind of [00:12:24.19] [00:12:24.19] done by an artist it was modern sort of two hands coming together that but that [00:12:33.19] [00:12:33.19] was a symbol of unity between Sunnis Shias and importance of course that was [00:12:38.16] [00:12:38.16] not that was preserved and as you can see [00:12:42.06] [00:12:42.06] that vegetarianism that came afterwards can explain this on the other hand kind [00:12:48.01] [00:12:48.01] of actually that talks it to the Battle of pronounce it right which is the [00:12:55.13] [00:12:55.13] separation of the Sunnis and Shias so this causes so much more separation [00:13:01.13] [00:13:01.13] whereas the ones that were destroyed and they're no efforts were made to to [00:13:06.09] [00:13:06.09] rebuild them more kind of advocating for a different in rock memory foundation [00:13:17.17] [00:13:17.17] that Kenya built the foundation with us money in that same location and kind of [00:13:25.04] [00:13:25.04] worked on preserving these types of memorials were many other ones were [00:13:30.06] [00:13:30.06] completely overlooked and so the outcome of that as you can see is a life spread [00:13:35.23] [00:13:35.23] sort of Sagittarians are huge the region and the spread of Isis everywhere and so [00:13:43.14] [00:13:43.14] the violence that we see now and outcome of this kind of sort of memory century [00:13:49.10] [00:13:49.10] warfare that was fought I mean there's plenty of [00:13:53.08] [00:13:53.08] examples that there's just the kind of house to go into but plenty of examples [00:13:58.18] [00:13:58.18] of how that works and how very large urban sort of design award given to make [00:14:08.09] [00:14:08.09] sure that areas that kind of with that were kind of renovated a whole new city [00:14:14.02] [00:14:14.02] was built over the areas that kind of were helping to create that kind of [00:14:19.10] [00:14:19.10] unity and then areas like this were tons of money or spent to rebuild it what's [00:14:25.16] [00:14:25.16] interesting is that iraqis started with mantling this monument and the US forces [00:14:33.05] [00:14:33.05] stopped them which is very strange and then after a while US funded the [00:14:40.20] [00:14:40.20] reconstruction and so it's very very interesting how very important monuments [00:14:46.13] [00:14:46.13] become in a century [00:14:50.18] [00:15:03.17] so I'd like to introduce our second speaker dr. Nora Allen Madhavi in 2010 [00:15:10.17] [00:15:10.17] dr. V co-founded the first environmental social enterprise in Saudi Arabia ha ha [00:15:18.14] [00:15:18.14] sustainability solutions thank you with the aim of promoting environmental [00:15:26.13] [00:15:26.13] initiatives in both the public and private sectors as part of her work as [00:15:30.17] [00:15:30.17] an environmental consultant she has managed local sustainability initiatives [00:15:34.08] [00:15:34.08] and our two years of working with macaque dr. Hager be cultivated an [00:15:39.18] [00:15:39.18] interest in broader issues of the environment and respective social and [00:15:43.06] [00:15:43.06] political perceptions in the least after that she's pursued training and [00:15:48.12] [00:15:48.12] sustainability management and received her master's degree from Columbia [00:15:52.11] [00:15:52.11] University in New York and 2014 and currently she is a PhD candidate in [00:15:58.18] [00:15:58.18] Islamic civilizations and studies at Emory University with a specialization [00:16:03.17] [00:16:03.17] in Islam and ecology her current research examines the perception of the [00:16:09.21] [00:16:09.21] environment in Saudi Arabia and includes insights into transnational discourses [00:16:16.08] [00:16:16.08] which draw from religious sources it's an interdisciplinary kind of work that [00:16:21.10] [00:16:21.10] looks at the intersection between politics and prior mental activism and [00:16:25.08] [00:16:25.08] Islamic theology and she's also is the extension of this she's also [00:16:29.05] [00:16:29.05] investigating environmental sustainability in the Middle East and [00:16:32.04] [00:16:32.04] the ways in which is a lot of influences so thank you very much [00:16:39.00] [00:17:36.04] so we basically started a club where we just trying to over in this campus she [00:17:45.05] [00:17:45.05] was not available during that time that was 2008 and what started as an [00:17:51.09] [00:17:51.09] acceptable activity turned into a business that we started after [00:17:55.21] [00:17:55.21] graduation so our goal in traveling [00:18:05.08] [00:18:06.05] organizations with individuals information to be environmentally [00:18:10.19] [00:18:10.19] sustainable establishing programs so we weren't very nice like out of public [00:18:20.18] [00:18:20.18] passionate and of course to think very simply that many people fathers almost [00:18:34.05] [00:18:34.05] everyone share our sense of urgency and actually to solve environmental issues [00:18:39.19] [00:18:39.19] so we were able to find many allies within different communities but to our [00:18:46.14] [00:18:46.14] surprise our comforts to spending back to August so nothing to see looking back [00:18:55.00] [00:18:55.00] there was the kind of challenges that I can summarize first many people didn't [00:19:03.17] [00:19:03.17] even realize the magnitude [00:19:06.19] [00:19:07.17] and I think that's due to the technological nature of that country [00:19:13.08] [00:19:13.08] like it's not gonna be that experiences a lot of a lot of floods or tsunamis [00:19:22.10] [00:19:22.10] like this climate change is not actually physically felt for them it's always [00:19:28.02] [00:19:28.02] been hot anymore second thing is there was a resistant to believing in concepts [00:19:35.23] [00:19:35.23] climate change and global warming because some people assumed this [00:19:39.19] [00:19:39.19] contradictory to Islamic beliefs and finally some you would assume [00:19:44.07] [00:19:44.07] sustainability is like a puzzle written semi-clean equal two of them looked at [00:19:49.15] [00:19:49.15] and for their people [00:19:54.01] [00:19:54.17] so this when China said like what if we faced motivating me first to this this [00:20:01.09] [00:20:01.09] kind of research further and I'm just dying inside the complex and we do that [00:20:06.07] [00:20:06.07] behind these beliefs and the perception [00:20:10.05] [00:20:13.14] so my interest in this particular topic was inspired while looking at news [00:20:18.17] [00:20:18.17] articles of environmental issues in the Middle East and I noticed that the [00:20:22.05] [00:20:22.05] majority of articles interesting extreme weather events are often associated with [00:20:26.21] [00:20:26.21] climate change for the in defiance which is judgment or [00:20:32.23] [00:20:32.23] monument when talking about climate change and usually like usually the [00:20:37.18] [00:20:37.18] translated articles and the English version would not have that kind of term [00:20:44.07] [00:20:44.07] double its entirety they actually about this time this [00:20:48.23] [00:20:48.23] approach was most prevalent in news articles that report recent scientific [00:20:52.15] [00:20:52.15] studies of climate change so an attempt to study this prevalence of such [00:20:57.11] [00:20:57.11] phenomena I approached the parapet virtual climate change discourse to [00:21:02.23] [00:21:02.23] understand our of Muslims or summer Muslims think about these issues or [00:21:07.20] [00:21:07.20] extreme weather events so one of the purposes of this presentation I examine [00:21:14.21] [00:21:14.21] 100 YouTube comments that have been made terms positive to scientific readings [00:21:19.17] [00:21:19.17] and furnishings so basically there to news means because only to talk about [00:21:24.05] [00:21:24.05] climate change so I will examine the comments based on [00:21:30.08] [00:21:30.08] the rhetoric and the subject matter being discussed [00:21:33.03] [00:21:33.03] there are three distinct categories that emerged when there are comments have [00:21:36.22] [00:21:36.22] explicitly though there were comments with this context religious references [00:21:45.12] [00:21:45.12] looking closely within one of these categories especially the non-religious [00:21:52.10] [00:21:52.10] comments the first theme there are sweeping we made the first theme [00:21:56.22] [00:21:56.22] representing 20 argues that extreme weather events are [00:22:01.08] [00:22:01.08] normal and there's nothing to worry about [00:22:04.06] [00:22:04.06] the second thing making out 38% of their comments said that climate change and [00:22:08.17] [00:22:08.17] extreme weather events are the result of matter of my titles like corruption [00:22:12.14] [00:22:12.14] winter when the humans and the third synergistic comments that deployment [00:22:18.16] [00:22:18.16] change experience to me that aims to distract the world by delivering by the [00:22:24.19] [00:22:24.19] averting financial resources our climate change instead of using it with us [00:22:29.09] [00:22:29.09] developing countries economies category which other religious comments which [00:22:37.07] [00:22:37.07] also will invite industry different themes any one person claimed that god [00:22:42.13] [00:22:42.13] only knows the unknown that humans are not authorized to speculate the meanings [00:22:47.15] [00:22:47.15] of extreme weather events so they don't associate fact with climate change 60 [00:22:55.18] [00:22:55.18] percent attribute that extreme weather events to by anger on humans or pathway [00:23:01.14] [00:23:01.14] of question sinners and the majority of the comments of 63 percent relate [00:23:07.06] [00:23:07.06] extreme weather events to the end of science specifically referring to the [00:23:15.22] [00:23:26.07] so we are trying to dr. tree behold the PhD from the University of Amsterdam and [00:24:57.21] [00:24:57.21] is the director of the memory development initiative he is also a [00:25:05.01] [00:25:05.01] senior lecturer at Emory University of the Department of Middle Eastern South [00:25:08.07] [00:25:08.07] Asian Studies and associate senior lecturer in the Department of Economics [00:25:12.06] [00:25:12.06] prior to coming to Emory in 2003 dr. Trudy served as a member of parliament [00:25:17.07] [00:25:17.07] in the Netherlands for two terms from 1994 to 2002 and during that time he was [00:25:24.06] [00:25:24.06] also a representative of the Netherlands and the Assembly of the Council of [00:25:27.13] [00:25:27.13] Europe the Assembly of Western European Union and the Dutch language Union he is [00:25:33.20] [00:25:33.20] also a public intellectual who speaks often in public and works also in [00:25:42.02] [00:25:42.02] journalism and translation he's written a number of books his most recent one is [00:25:48.18] [00:25:48.18] called Friday's of Rage Al Jazeera in the Arab Spring which is published in [00:25:54.02] [00:25:54.02] 2017 marks Purdue University Press and from tolerance to Islamophobia lives [00:26:00.10] [00:26:00.10] and ma'am forgive my pronunciation days a man will walk in his first book in the [00:26:15.10] [00:26:15.10] house of war Dutch Islam observe was published in 2013 by Oxford University [00:26:19.19] [00:26:19.19] Press right thank you so much and I really great presentations and very [00:26:28.11] [00:26:28.11] starts with one thing talking about sustainability and address the issue of [00:26:33.20] [00:26:33.20] translation you mentioned the panel is called translating sustainability to the [00:26:40.11] [00:26:40.11] MENA region well when I think I totally agree with with with the idea of [00:26:47.10] [00:26:47.10] translation because love translation has and the idea of sustainability is lost [00:26:54.08] [00:26:54.08] in translation absolutely so so first I agree that it's a fuzzy world [00:26:59.09] [00:26:59.09] it is especially contested concept because we're going to translate it into [00:27:03.12] [00:27:03.12] Arabic it's become still madama and honestly is much sexy word in Arabic [00:27:09.10] [00:27:09.10] it doesn't bubble eyes anybody doesn't help anybody to do anything if you have [00:27:14.12] [00:27:14.12] a tip survey just be quick Maura just did a survey for example [00:27:19.22] [00:27:19.22] inside Arabia Morocco Algeria or something like that it means a nothing [00:27:25.06] [00:27:25.06] it is classic apparently [00:27:30.06] [00:27:31.15] so this is the distance between said first so at the same time even which was [00:27:37.04] [00:27:37.04] rates in touch with French or something [00:27:40.21] [00:27:41.10] - something like a German it remains a very contested concept because it is [00:27:46.22] [00:27:46.22] almost an oxymoron it has this notion of an active process but also the same time [00:27:54.21] [00:27:54.21] instability so it is really difficult to have to do - in advance if we make a [00:28:02.08] [00:28:02.08] SWOT analysis of the word sustainability we can say what are the strengths is [00:28:08.02] [00:28:08.02] were the districts are the fact that there is a consensus around the world [00:28:14.11] [00:28:14.11] all the leaders of the world agreed like in the MDGs to create technical SDGs [00:28:21.09] [00:28:21.09] which are an intervention a continuation of the MDGs which is really very [00:28:25.16] [00:28:25.16] interesting because it keeps a kind of global commitment however it stays and [00:28:30.22] [00:28:30.22] down atop their model actually no in fact which is automatic and especially [00:28:39.19] [00:28:39.19] when you have from eight goals in MDGs to 17 goals with 69 targets to order [00:28:47.16] [00:28:47.16] difficult to really evaluate difficult to do something with and that's why I [00:28:53.11] [00:28:53.11] agree to a certain extent we don't yeah the critical force is on a species link [00:28:59.06] [00:28:59.06] we estimate would say actually it is like a stop it like plan to too big [00:29:06.17] [00:29:06.17] difficult to implement and it is a plan and when because now we are in the city [00:29:12.15] [00:29:12.15] of the dreamer the dreamer of the city of Martin again Marshall is mean didn't [00:29:17.04] [00:29:17.04] say I have a plan nobody said I have a dream so when you try to execute that [00:29:21.23] [00:29:21.23] plan and try to turn it into numbers only members and this is the problem [00:29:31.18] [00:29:31.18] equations which can suit even if you take the most interesting theories never [00:29:38.06] [00:29:38.06] invoke in development with Banerjee and [00:29:43.10] [00:29:45.04] Esther Duflo we you know it's random trials etc it [00:29:50.22] [00:29:50.22] remains very problematic because if you take take any place in the world and you [00:29:58.17] [00:29:58.17] will see there is a kind of disconnect between even evaluators and the [00:30:04.22] [00:30:04.22] standards you know people so there is this you could go back to do this [00:30:12.01] [00:30:12.01] as I said it's a commitment it's interesting so if you were to turn it [00:30:17.06] [00:30:17.06] into opportunities invited you we have to find a common language to [00:30:23.03] [00:30:23.03] have a common lexicon at the local left and again which will be personally said [00:30:28.03] [00:30:28.03] and not talking without agreement he has some interesting idea which is try to be [00:30:35.22] [00:30:35.22] a circle instead of the plan it means you have to look every time at the local [00:30:42.15] [00:30:42.15] in conditions and to involve local players and here what do you need to do [00:30:48.11] [00:30:48.11] with SVG's I think in the region Tunisia Mauritania take the mushrik started from [00:31:20.06] [00:31:20.06] Egypt and then the Devon Syria Libya Jordan and the Mushnik is absolutely [00:31:33.09] [00:31:33.09] military there are more weapons in the market ever somewhere else different [00:31:38.04] [00:31:38.04] reality and the third one is to the Godfrey's what's going on in the Gulf I [00:31:43.21] [00:31:43.21] mean we see for the first time after the visit of our president Trump 2017 the [00:31:51.01] [00:31:51.01] only the only if you could say that word [00:31:57.02] [00:32:02.16] crisis Qatar is added to the unity between all the brothers is not there [00:32:08.22] [00:32:08.22] anymore so so even [00:32:11.06] [00:32:11.06] the last bastion actually of resistance to something has been Thatcher and then [00:32:17.19] [00:32:17.19] this I don't saying that because we Jian was a pair of region or not the problem [00:32:24.14] [00:32:24.14] is that if it was something that's good now that region is responding more so [00:32:33.05] [00:32:33.05] since 2017 could say place is running back the Arabs bring achievements [00:32:46.05] [00:32:46.05] everywhere from Morocco just out iterator there is funding to to bring [00:32:53.08] [00:32:53.08] you know you know Arabia and the Gulf region a lot of money written in the [00:33:04.23] [00:33:04.23] Arab Spring to Brian actually civil servants in order to keep them in place [00:33:09.16] [00:33:09.16] and they fund is actually counter-revolutions from Libya to [00:33:15.12] [00:33:15.12] recently in sooo bad if you look at the user banners during the Algerian [00:33:21.20] [00:33:21.20] revolution which you just not happening to stop because ie [00:33:25.12] [00:33:25.12] stop do what you do in our country you know they would be be they wanna have is [00:33:31.04] [00:33:31.04] that promotes once in a model which is preserving military model to suppress [00:33:38.03] [00:33:38.03] the legal and interceptor to show the West and they have emotions even in your [00:33:43.08] [00:33:43.08] opinion you know just Mike on agreed to what's going on with general after going [00:33:50.16] [00:33:50.16] in and bobbing actually truly and they can expect to we are living in these [00:33:56.11] [00:33:56.11] kind of situations promoting one miniature model one of CC the one off [00:34:00.23] [00:34:00.23] the one off half-starved one off there to show the West if not us is gonna be [00:34:07.17] [00:34:07.17] to dilute it's gonna be this planet political Islam is that we're gonna be [00:34:12.01] [00:34:12.01] easy alive so the security of is so when you forget about social justice [00:34:17.06] [00:34:17.06] what are you forget about the people in you know something like that in it's [00:34:20.14] [00:34:20.14] like a network with just little SD she's very nice [00:34:23.08] [00:34:23.08] I said there they have a number of future virtues but it's not it's not [00:34:30.07] [00:34:30.07] gonna get into the job so just go back to is the point which is the problem of [00:34:42.16] [00:34:42.16] consensus we live in the time of absolute disappearance of consensus in [00:34:48.20] [00:34:48.20] in the Arab world just recently check the Arab League took [00:34:53.17] [00:34:53.17] place a painting recently Syria is not an agenda talked about in a party what I [00:35:04.02] [00:35:04.02] don't know what you're talking about I mean as be she's worth SDG so this is [00:35:08.14] [00:35:08.14] this totally so and you know that yeah when we go to talk about stability you [00:35:17.15] [00:35:17.15] know that debts that since the Paris agreement you know this has been [00:35:23.13] [00:35:23.13] implemented successfully in Morocco in the cop21 put the rock under under the [00:35:30.04] [00:35:30.04] sea of these I'm so sorry this is the leader of the world put in a rut and so [00:35:34.01] [00:35:34.01] what is it now so I do but it's also in a way a global [00:35:41.06] [00:35:41.06] level the last books whenever the bank and a [00:35:46.01] [00:35:46.01] species had to play well is that there is a alienation there is a [00:35:51.12] [00:35:51.12] marginalization of political and I'm not saying that Islam is a good thing I just [00:35:56.03] [00:35:56.03] say if if you have elections in any country in the Arab world but instead [00:36:02.17] [00:36:02.17] Islam you will in Turkey in Turkey tomorrow Arab country so it means that [00:36:08.08] [00:36:08.08] where is the popular culture of it so we could not marginalize it forever you [00:36:13.23] [00:36:13.23] cannot put all the Muslim Brotherhood in Chen you cannot put all the political [00:36:17.18] [00:36:17.18] engine you have to find a modus operandi were in the rule of law where I'm going [00:36:23.15] [00:36:23.15] to include them in this public space or in a multiplicity of of number of public [00:36:29.01] [00:36:29.01] spaces in order to to reach me that they have to over work the last thing that we [00:36:45.03] [00:36:45.03] learned from Algeria that the civil war in Algeria led to even more problematic [00:36:51.10] [00:36:51.10] situation etc by marginalizing them and not including them in the political [00:36:56.19] [00:36:56.19] process you have a problem because the animal has to go through this this face [00:37:01.20] [00:37:01.20] of political slab not to become yeah but the keys to know the limits of Christmas [00:37:08.12] [00:37:08.12] time we saw the experience Morsi was disaster in Egypt but when you quit when [00:37:15.23] [00:37:15.23] you post Morsi in jail he becomes a martyr and it doesn't show the limits of [00:37:20.11] [00:37:20.11] its own governance we see that in Morocco man Morocco has two terms Muslim [00:37:25.08] [00:37:25.08] Islamist parties what happened it's now their popularity is doing that [00:37:31.05] [00:37:31.05] because we know they cannot they be pushed through the throat of the people [00:37:35.17] [00:37:35.17] a lot of buffoons should have pensions of teachers being [00:37:42.03] [00:37:42.03] cut down and they can not you know create good sanitation good water access [00:37:48.08] [00:37:48.08] to a number of things no it's not they are very show the news [00:37:53.23] [00:37:53.23] of their government everything even in Turkey now we see with the turnover [00:38:02.01] [00:38:02.01] terrorism go down so I to believe that that that maybe that's a season I [00:38:10.23] [00:38:15.06] remember when I was student in understand I I follow the course the [00:38:20.12] [00:38:20.12] professor would I have graduate from Haneda his name the course was cool [00:38:25.12] [00:38:25.12] medicine and didn't people and things humans and things the idea of the [00:38:38.17] [00:38:38.17] environment the idea of living in balance with with environment it's a [00:38:44.01] [00:38:44.01] very inclusion thing I think people and things are so our final speaker will be [00:38:57.21] [00:38:57.21] someone who may be familiar to some of you from her wonderful keynote yesterday [00:39:04.15] [00:39:04.15] we have with us dr. part of these mahadevi who is the current acting dean [00:39:10.22] [00:39:10.22] of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies [00:39:13.21] [00:39:13.21] University of Denver and previously she was an associate professor and chair of [00:39:18.18] [00:39:18.18] anthropology and director of the Pacific Basin Institute of the Dean of women at [00:39:23.20] [00:39:23.20] Pomona College she has a truly an impressively broad [00:39:30.21] [00:39:30.21] broad portfolio of research including gendered labor migration and sexuality [00:39:36.23] [00:39:36.23] Human Rights youth culture transnational feminism and public health in the [00:39:41.14] [00:39:41.14] context of changing global critical structures she's the author of four [00:39:45.04] [00:39:45.04] books all of that Irish Island written myself posh first book passionate [00:39:50.20] [00:39:50.20] uprising Iran's sexual revolution was published by Stanford University Press [00:39:54.22] [00:39:54.22] in 2008 and her second book gridlock labor migration in human trafficking in [00:40:00.06] [00:40:00.06] Dubai was also published by Stanford in 2011 her third book is entitled trapped [00:40:07.06] [00:40:07.06] from trafficking to terror constructing a global social problem was published in [00:40:11.11] [00:40:11.11] 2013 by Rutledge and her fourth book do all this crossing the Gulf love and [00:40:19.05] [00:40:19.05] family and migrant lives by Stanford University Press in April 2016 thank you [00:40:28.16] [00:40:28.16] so much for being thank you for the opportunity to speak [00:40:31.16] [00:40:31.16] to you again today I will try not to have any overlap of what I spoke about [00:40:36.14] [00:40:36.14] yesterday but to see you since yesterday was a bit about the SDG not uncritically [00:40:42.10] [00:40:42.10] but really I was talking about innovative finance and how we might [00:40:45.17] [00:40:45.17] think about the world in finance [00:40:49.16] [00:40:49.21] so tackling the STG [00:40:54.14] [00:40:54.22] so today's panel offs that the topic is on sustainability in the MENA region and [00:41:00.01] [00:41:00.01] I want to talk about two areas of sustainability that are not often [00:41:05.05] [00:41:05.05] considered I think that a lot but I think as not articulated so while [00:41:12.02] [00:41:12.02] you know talking about sustainability in the region has to be in concert or in [00:41:18.19] [00:41:18.19] coalition with solutions and so what I want to talk about it are [00:41:24.09] [00:41:24.09] the sustainability of social movements as one area and the sustainability of [00:41:28.13] [00:41:28.13] education and of course these are linked right and the question is what does it [00:41:35.14] [00:41:35.14] take to make the organic social movement and the organic movement towards [00:41:41.08] [00:41:41.08] decolonizing higher education that's taken place [00:41:45.20] [00:41:51.02] so this comes from Google back currently writing which is and in the book I'm [00:41:57.15] [00:41:57.15] talking about feminist movements [00:42:02.10] [00:42:04.23] the book really speaks to D Center in the United States and the rhetoric [00:42:09.13] [00:42:09.13] around me too you have this narrative here right now that the United States [00:42:13.16] [00:42:13.16] has come up with this new wave of - and that's erroneous actually it was [00:42:20.05] [00:42:20.05] feminist movements that did a lot of Recife [00:42:23.15] [00:42:23.15] iran's green movement and the Arab Spring in Tunisia in particular so I [00:42:28.05] [00:42:28.05] have three case studies and follows her three protagonists in the book Iran is [00:42:33.20] [00:42:33.20] the first case study based on earlier fill work and sort of subsequent [00:42:38.15] [00:42:38.15] interviews the second is India and the third is to Asia [00:42:43.21] [00:42:43.21] our conversation today so how do we make some movements in sustainable well first [00:42:49.11] [00:42:49.11] we have to recognize that we have to recognize what really is fomenting [00:42:53.05] [00:42:53.05] revolution and what has been really disturbing to me and watching the [00:43:01.01] [00:43:01.01] aftermath of Iran's Green [00:43:04.09] [00:43:05.06] the Arab Spring is the way in which women who really not inherited right it [00:43:10.16] [00:43:10.16] was a lot of organizing by women's groups in my first book which was on [00:43:14.06] [00:43:14.06] time politics Ron looked at how sexual and [00:43:17.05] [00:43:17.05] gender politics were giving birth to a civil rights movement and they kind of [00:43:21.12] [00:43:21.12] ended that book by saying there's going to be a larger civil rights movement and [00:43:25.03] [00:43:25.03] exactly a year later the great movement happens led by many of the same [00:43:29.05] [00:43:29.05] figurehead it's who were leading the sexual revolution in Iran in Tunisia is [00:43:35.14] [00:43:35.14] the same thing you've had a lot of waves of feminism [00:43:39.12] [00:43:39.19] organizing deploying the tools of social media and transnational other [00:43:43.22] [00:43:43.22] connections and somehow when the Arab Spring happened [00:43:48.11] [00:43:48.11] just another reason that happens outside of the region so first they have to be [00:43:58.01] [00:43:58.01] visible and and in addition they have to not be altered what do I mean by that so [00:44:07.11] [00:44:07.11] yesterday you heard me talk a little bit about sad funding all the time is [00:44:11.18] [00:44:11.18] funding that comes from external sources does [00:44:14.17] [00:44:14.17] good so if we take the case of Tunisian for instance there were a number of [00:44:18.10] [00:44:18.10] organics on this that were growing and yet funding [00:44:22.18] [00:44:22.18] organization she went to pee USI a difference in the bricks this these [00:44:30.03] [00:44:30.03] funding mechanisms came in to support a particular type of organizing that they [00:44:36.03] [00:44:36.03] were maybe more in contact with right they couldn't support the feminists or [00:44:40.15] [00:44:40.15] tonight they wanted to support them to be organizing that was [00:44:45.07] [00:44:45.07] they the scg's at the time right and so this kind of funding actually ended up [00:44:50.08] [00:44:50.08] deterring the organic silence or anything that was happening with the fat [00:44:55.09] [00:44:55.09] funding and that is it's typically the greatest threat I think choose the [00:44:59.11] [00:44:59.11] sustainability of so when outside of the country a particular [00:45:04.05] [00:45:04.05] arm of the movement is identified and that our movement is funded which [00:45:08.09] [00:45:08.09] thereby eclipses and Eliza success that you explained when you lean into each [00:45:12.23] [00:45:12.23] piece exactly so you had these feminist groups that were organizing rights and [00:45:18.06] [00:45:18.06] they were organizing to you know bring about the shift and the revolution and [00:45:25.19] [00:45:25.19] instead of funding those groups it was actually the first way of feminists who [00:45:31.01] [00:45:31.01] were funded in the first wave feminists were the ones who rehearse the [00:45:34.08] [00:45:34.08] narratives of feminism for the United States so it was actually the first wave [00:45:38.04] [00:45:38.04] of violence as opposed to miss Monica an assistant that's right who knew the next [00:45:42.21] [00:45:42.21] generation of organizers we're looking at how Islam political Islam probably [00:45:47.16] [00:45:47.16] Salaam can be used to bring about change right but outside of the region people [00:45:53.04] [00:45:53.04] didn't like this notion of Islamic feminism and so what they did was they [00:45:57.07] [00:45:57.07] wanted to fund the more Western form of feminism the liberation feminism if you [00:46:01.21] [00:46:01.21] will we talked about it in terms of like this [00:46:04.01] [00:46:04.01] complex right the white complex for the charity yet charity industrial complex [00:46:10.18] [00:46:10.18] the life we need to save all the save the brown limit from the ground men that [00:46:16.08] [00:46:16.08] stock at a very old first wavelength we need to liberate from it and what you [00:46:20.22] [00:46:20.22] had was this other generation organizing saying we can feel liberated through [00:46:24.13] [00:46:24.13] Islam and for social change that was a narrative that wasn't necessarily [00:46:31.06] [00:46:31.06] appreciated by Europe it was they sought to fund cut of the other narrative so [00:46:38.05] [00:46:38.05] that in a second I think we have to recognize the impact of feminist [00:46:48.11] [00:46:48.11] organizing to bring about this sort of hashtag you need to or I even again the [00:46:56.05] [00:46:56.05] United States is trying to take credit for bringing about me too and the [00:46:59.21] [00:46:59.21] reality is that it's actually been the last decade and a half there's been a [00:47:04.03] [00:47:04.03] lot of organizing in what would be called the global south or just [00:47:08.07] [00:47:08.07] subalterns right this organizing around issues that pertain to me to has been [00:47:14.01] [00:47:14.01] happening since the late 90s and early 2000s it's just gotten traction here but [00:47:19.17] [00:47:19.17] the notion that it's been invented in the United States is problematic and so [00:47:23.15] [00:47:23.15] that's kind of what I'm taking apart in the book so in the book animals are [00:47:29.04] [00:47:29.04] trying to highlight the options for speaking back to a regime when you're [00:47:32.15] [00:47:32.15] not necessarily supported by these external groups what you saw what I saw [00:47:37.18] [00:47:37.18] in Iran and I don't have much time as I'd like to go into each of the key [00:47:41.12] [00:47:41.12] things but what I saw in both Iran and Tunisia was that you can see individual [00:47:46.11] [00:47:46.11] and systemic change so here in the US we grapple with is me to asking us to [00:47:51.14] [00:47:51.14] change individual behaviors or is it asking for systemic change right is it [00:47:56.11] [00:47:56.11] asking us is it asking us to change men's behavior [00:47:59.14] [00:47:59.14] right or you know interior interior as intimate in inter intimate behaviors or [00:48:04.16] [00:48:04.16] is it asking for systemic change and that is it asking for colleges and [00:48:08.10] [00:48:08.10] universities to have quality for mooyah on actual respite in the worklist this [00:48:14.18] [00:48:14.18] is constantly seen as intention whereas when you see [00:48:19.00] [00:48:19.00] organizing both in Iran in Geneva you see that these are not intentioned but [00:48:22.19] [00:48:22.19] in concert okay but the individual change brings systemic change and [00:48:26.23] [00:48:26.23] systemic change will allow some for individual change and so that's that's [00:48:32.13] [00:48:32.19] I'm looking at how sexual sexual politics has been a place to explore [00:48:36.23] [00:48:36.23] both individual and systemic change I'm borrowing notions are on intimate [00:48:42.02] [00:48:42.02] citizenship as has a reconstituted fact it's reconstituted by the same its what [00:48:47.16] [00:48:47.16] I'm saying is lesser known theories in citizenship so looking at how in in both [00:48:53.16] [00:48:53.16] Iran and in Tunisia young people were able to comport their resistance right [00:48:59.05] [00:48:59.05] to be able to use the body to speak back to to a regime with which they did not [00:49:03.21] [00:49:03.21] agree but without necessarily rejecting Islam I think this goes to your point as [00:49:09.07] [00:49:09.07] well as that right there is the Islam has a lot of traction it's just it's [00:49:13.19] [00:49:13.19] reconstituted and that I think makes people outside their region variant so [00:49:19.01] [00:49:19.01] sexual politics becomes a way to explore and speak back to the regime that also [00:49:23.16] [00:49:23.16] becomes a way to explore and speak back to colonialism and [00:49:27.15] [00:49:27.15] right this question of colonized bodies how do we speak crack and reclaim a body [00:49:32.02] [00:49:32.02] that has been colonized or a real colonized feather the case of Iran I'm [00:49:37.13] [00:49:37.13] looking at how these feminist movements have created more institutions and [00:49:41.13] [00:49:41.13] aligned and institutionalized their resistance even within acknowledging [00:49:45.14] [00:49:45.14] framework for many of these women living their values has helped to articulate [00:49:50.21] [00:49:50.21] their identity outside of their status as mother daughter sister or worker of [00:49:57.02] [00:49:57.02] course their battlefield fatigue is real and it's compounded through coming [00:50:01.11] [00:50:01.11] together learning across borders fortunately with social media [00:50:05.01] [00:50:05.01] vibration I was thinking about two recent sort of Twitter hashtag movements [00:50:11.13] [00:50:11.13] one being my selfie freedom in Iran which you've probably heard about that's [00:50:14.22] [00:50:14.22] kind of made its way across borders since 2014 and then of course the new [00:50:19.02] [00:50:19.02] bloggers which began in Egypt but spread to Morocco in Tunisia and how they were [00:50:23.23] [00:50:23.23] able to build build a movement across borders but living their values has [00:50:28.23] [00:50:28.23] really been important for a lot of these assignments but again we've enclosed the [00:50:32.13] [00:50:32.13] work that many of them so the book is kind of trying to speak back to that now [00:50:38.09] [00:50:38.09] for many of these individuals higher education has played a major role right [00:50:42.17] [00:50:42.17] the universities have been the gathering place for many of the movements right [00:50:46.10] [00:50:46.10] people have come to the universities to learn different theories and learn [00:50:50.19] [00:50:50.19] different ways of speaking back all the while trying to decolonize the higher [00:50:55.11] [00:50:55.11] education that's happening and what do I mean by that what I mean is by is that [00:50:59.21] [00:50:59.21] people are trying to reclaim indigenous forms of knowledge right and so they're [00:51:03.23] [00:51:03.23] trying to find a way to make their curricula match their own experience so [00:51:08.12] [00:51:08.12] that we're not just necessarily taking authoritative Canon or if you will from [00:51:14.05] [00:51:14.05] the West but trying to figure out a more organic movement what threatens this [00:51:18.02] [00:51:18.02] most once again is is what I call it sort of recolonization of higher [00:51:22.05] [00:51:22.05] education in the Middle East anyone who's been to the Gulf recently will [00:51:25.22] [00:51:25.22] probably notice there are more American the universe is right you know every [00:51:31.23] [00:51:31.23] time I would do by or Doha can't help but notice that right and and and I'm [00:51:36.23] [00:51:36.23] troubled by it right untroubled by that kind of pre-colonization through higher [00:51:40.17] [00:51:40.17] education not that that that we don't have a role to play and not that for [00:51:45.08] [00:51:45.08] instance Study Abroad can't be fruitful but rather that it might need to be more [00:51:49.04] [00:51:49.04] intentional that an experience of study abroad might need to be one where people [00:51:53.21] [00:51:53.21] are moving the flows are both directions first or not not unidirectional but that [00:51:59.11] [00:51:59.11] people are able to look at different forms of knowledge that necessarily [00:52:02.18] [00:52:02.18] those which are which are privileged here so you know the creation of global [00:52:07.16] [00:52:07.16] campuses threatens the organic movements to reform higher education which is [00:52:12.09] [00:52:12.09] absolutely what's needed to make social movement sustainable is having a very [00:52:17.07] [00:52:17.07] robust system of higher education how can we take the really good things that [00:52:21.12] [00:52:21.12] have happened with Western higher education without eclipsing the entire [00:52:25.10] [00:52:25.10] history or the entire Canon that is the memory of a nation [00:52:31.06] [00:52:47.04] cannoli but I really believe last year so my question [00:52:53.18] [00:52:53.18] as you mentioned the whole point of the holidays and that has happened since [00:53:01.19] [00:53:01.19] it's not operate like the culture like these partners so do you like having [00:53:09.03] [00:53:09.03] privileges or not any ways that you know these simple projects that will be [00:53:15.00] [00:53:20.18] I think before yeah like one of the problems that we have is that usually [00:53:29.00] [00:53:29.00] organizations but I think actually and research to see what are they [00:53:52.09] [00:53:52.09] motivations between how are the speculation is gonna be it was what's [00:53:58.09] [00:53:58.09] their value because you might if you keep some what about these issues but do [00:54:07.11] [00:54:07.11] you think that they've been just going [00:54:23.09] [00:54:30.10] or a Russian dinner and your survey of the media was that all from Saturday [00:54:35.16] [00:54:35.16] publications or outlets or was that pan regional it's so the former later [00:54:54.21] [00:54:54.21] outcomes as sixty forty percent splits all religious non-religious responses to [00:55:02.15] [00:55:02.15] the pan regional outcomes in terms of how people responded is that your [00:55:06.23] [00:55:06.23] conclusion yeah so magnet ladies might go up so so I think of course not anyone [00:55:15.02] [00:55:15.02] who would watch the videos would respond during but like the people who respond [00:55:21.01] [00:55:21.01] to these videos I think more would have mainly enraged by a statement that you [00:55:28.16] [00:55:28.16] know [00:55:30.23] [00:55:31.11] trying to they're actually what these ladies talk about you know dramatic [00:55:37.18] [00:55:37.18] effects of climate change which most people we like to remember that walk [00:55:43.10] [00:55:43.10] really - so I think what someone doesn't have I like to if some who have never [00:55:57.14] [00:55:57.14] been educated environmental issues seems such a good evening with sporadic action [00:56:02.16] [00:56:02.16] other things that I'll be the virus to the entire population I think it was [00:56:07.22] [00:56:07.22] wave I think that there is actually an ontology of connecting these two [00:56:13.06] [00:56:13.06] together that's not only one person it's actually [00:56:19.21] [00:56:23.15] so would you would you relay that a very nature of electric that was used in the [00:56:29.13] [00:56:29.13] original media outlet so the elliptic nature of the outcomes there is of the [00:56:36.21] [00:56:36.21] climate change impacts versus they're going to be ten percent less water two [00:56:42.09] [00:56:42.09] degrees increase which does not stir the same reaction people would you attribute [00:56:49.01] [00:56:49.01] the religious connotations in people's minds to the present the situation [00:57:42.07] [00:57:42.07] Algeria and Sudan through extreme changes recently I think I'd love to [00:57:48.21] [00:57:48.21] talk about reusing but without a chain JIRA is it's a memory one anchor [00:57:58.12] [00:57:58.12] actually in the liberation you know war against the French which is the one of [00:58:05.20] [00:58:05.20] the FM which been using for a long time and expending this service call you know [00:58:14.09] [00:58:14.09] this military junta that use the last man that they have to legitimize [00:58:20.15] [00:58:20.15] actually being in power and things the fight against I gave the French they [00:58:26.03] [00:58:26.03] want to keep it alive and you know Africa is the last one who can do that [00:58:31.19] [00:58:31.19] after that there would be nobody so the second memory which is the memory [00:58:36.23] [00:58:36.23] of the youth because we have a youth ball in the Islamic in the Arab world [00:58:40.23] [00:58:40.23] and especially they have nothing to do they call the [00:58:45.00] [00:58:45.00] test from hit from the war the lead on the world all day even they it's a rare [00:58:50.23] [00:58:50.23] state and they have a lot of oil etc they this is a huge organization of the [00:58:57.19] [00:58:57.19] youth this youth doesn't have the memory of the war of the liberation war its [00:59:03.01] [00:59:03.01] memory is anchored in a different memory the one of the Civil War of the 19th [00:59:07.08] [00:59:07.08] where the Islamists were actually denied to have access to power and you had ten [00:59:12.19] [00:59:12.19] years of war between the two Liberty and then they for them the French they even [00:59:17.16] [00:59:17.16] prefer the French this military junta that is authoritarian so we have if you [00:59:26.12] [00:59:26.12] could say we have three friends we could say the frame the media international [00:59:31.16] [00:59:31.16] media frame of the the regime and the frame of the youth the youth see see [00:59:39.22] [00:59:39.22] actually the military junta as promoting you know a kind of issue [00:59:46.15] [00:59:46.15] dimension narrative that doesn't work anymore and they just they steal all the [00:59:51.00] [00:59:51.00] money the military spent so much money on buying arguments from the subject [00:59:58.23] [00:59:58.23] from from Russia that even work doesn't work they spend all that money so and [01:00:04.02] [01:00:04.02] then they buy these privileges and all the money of the oil do that so this is [01:00:07.10] [01:00:07.10] the narrative we have to change this this regime if you look in for example [01:00:13.10] [01:00:13.10] during the protest market you see they have they have this wheelchair so mean [01:00:18.20] [01:00:18.20] this is the regime of whichever we need the the institutions of the state that [01:00:23.23] [01:00:23.23] have at least you see anymore because what they do is is because this guy who [01:00:31.22] [01:00:31.22] can lost the mute cannot walk who speaks on the opposite is brother Silus or [01:00:37.01] [01:00:37.01] everything or somebody else who does to take you know and and this is the [01:00:41.17] [01:00:41.17] beginning so they seen as a change of leader [01:00:43.23] [01:00:43.23] the routine exactly well yeah and they were the regime one step and she said no [01:00:48.18] [01:00:48.18] we're gonna do okay after the fifth Friday fridge you know [01:01:12.11] [01:01:12.11] with the regime would say these these people are funded by external forces [01:01:22.00] [01:01:22.00] they want to bring this if we don't stop them we will have a kind of Isis machine [01:01:30.12] [01:01:30.12] here again we can like Libya so they show these dangers but at the same time [01:01:39.02] [01:01:39.02] help the youth and they wanted to act [01:01:43.12] [01:01:44.16] Constitution number 12 which they have to keep the power after you know the [01:01:56.07] [01:01:56.07] posting the president to also and the people and the young people say what [01:02:06.10] [01:02:06.10] happened we have to activate Action 7 which is give the power to do to the [01:02:13.20] [01:02:13.20] people and this is within he's gonna continue continue like that because once [01:02:22.06] [01:02:22.06] we see here in general is that one and find it also in the Gulf region [01:02:27.05] [01:02:27.05] especially by MVS they said by the others and sorry so [01:02:35.00] [01:02:35.00] sorry I shouldn't say injure anybody so no you know funded by but even wants to [01:02:52.21] [01:02:54.03] teach me guitar and seven turkey versus and it oh fuck weren't fun it's always [01:03:08.11] [01:03:08.11] one fun the other one the nutria solution and it is so if you could say [01:03:15.02] [01:03:15.02] the batter is within Islamic cells within society and all funded by Austin [01:03:25.04] [01:03:25.04] result is just as panelists okay the gaps have chaos and this is helps to [01:03:31.12] [01:03:31.12] these non-state actors like like Isis like terrorist organizations you know [01:03:37.08] [01:03:37.08] what's happening in Libya is which is the door actually to the the gates [01:03:45.03] [01:03:45.03] actually today sucks entire Africa she's become in a forest region from Boko [01:03:49.16] [01:03:49.16] Haram decided to do that and it's the exact keyword salads with every [01:03:53.18] [01:03:53.18] preventive [01:03:56.07] [01:04:00.07] hi everyone this is questions open to all of us and based on the idea that you [01:04:06.08] [01:04:06.08] also discussed sustainability in middle eastern regions being rooted in Social [01:04:14.21] [01:04:14.21] Development or religion these other practices and so how would [01:04:18.04] [01:04:18.04] you all the sort of consider class in this conversation in economic news [01:04:21.20] [01:04:21.20] conversations and thinking about the motivation of these about these nations [01:04:27.03] [01:04:27.03] and the individuals in informations and that they're trying to advance an [01:04:31.22] [01:04:31.22] economic gain GP or whatever the case may be rather than looking for [01:04:36.05] [01:04:36.05] sustainable ways in which to do so especially with the example a lot of [01:04:40.23] [01:04:40.23] Western nations in the United States particularly which has created this [01:04:44.10] [01:04:44.10] economic game based [01:04:47.09] [01:04:56.19] Laurette summarize your question with his able to the rolling spaces that [01:05:00.09] [01:05:00.09] whole thing work oh what's the Royal United States and [01:05:03.06] [01:05:03.06] thinking that these nations are trying to or practicing unsustainable practices [01:05:09.10] [01:05:09.10] because they're trying to find economic gain I don't mean the motivator what is [01:05:13.11] [01:05:13.11] what what is the motivation look like in conversation with class and that they're [01:05:19.02] [01:05:19.02] kids it makes economic gain but in unsustainable ways but that that's [01:05:23.05] [01:05:23.05] worked in practice for other nations yeah I mean look at present current [01:05:31.18] [01:05:31.18] configuration of that estate especially with the current government it's really [01:05:36.17] [01:05:36.17] difficult to say anything first of all let me just say it's didn't I asked my [01:05:43.10] [01:05:43.10] students to write a letter to present job to tell them what is missing in [01:05:49.03] [01:05:49.03] American policy and it was really very interesting comment that when our former [01:05:57.14] [01:05:57.14] Secretary of State visited actually Kenya was fine except second you know [01:06:04.20] [01:06:04.20] the first was our president to Chile to to to abroad was actually Saudi Arabia [01:06:12.04] [01:06:12.04] which is really say laughs about what's going on in that [01:06:19.02] [01:06:19.02] sense I think the current administration is not really I'm not preaching about [01:06:24.15] [01:06:24.15] that the same what's coming up is that that it doesn't it it's done it's me [01:06:30.07] [01:06:30.07] first and don't care what's going on in they don't look to social movements as [01:06:38.12] [01:06:38.12] they don't look at and what do you want they don't care about these kind of [01:06:44.06] [01:06:44.06] things and this is a big a people thing I really think that with the idea bility [01:06:50.05] [01:06:50.05] is is a big mistake and if you want something sustainable [01:06:57.06] [01:06:57.06] you have absolutely you know to work on social cohesion in these I must say the [01:07:08.16] [01:07:08.16] the social as you say it's more important than anything and if you can [01:07:14.08] [01:07:14.08] convert the social capital into you know stability into economic capital you will [01:07:21.00] [01:07:21.00] gain much more from you know converting only economic capital to little projects [01:07:27.20] [01:07:27.20] somewhere and that's what I do think that it has to do is to help do you buy [01:07:37.18] [01:07:37.18] you know job stability and possibility through the social and not through the [01:07:45.23] [01:07:45.23] security on animals [01:07:49.15] [01:07:51.15] yeah so I guess what I was talking about yesterday which is [01:07:56.04] [01:07:56.04] I think any gate result depends this question of class is very different [01:08:01.03] [01:08:01.03] depending on the country right so you have the halide right here the Gulf [01:08:04.11] [01:08:04.11] countries where class for citizens is a bit less of an issue because there's so [01:08:10.09] [01:08:10.09] much oil right so it's maybe there's vast inequalities if you're looking at [01:08:14.12] [01:08:14.12] the golfers is the mantra versus Iran I mean very very very different and like [01:08:19.09] [01:08:19.09] class relations GDP you know that so it's it's it's quite different depending [01:08:25.21] [01:08:25.21] on which country you're focusing on to come to the second part of your [01:08:32.05] [01:08:32.05] questions and which relates to the first I think that many of the countries in [01:08:37.01] [01:08:37.01] the region are on unfortunately on the receiving end of exploitation and on [01:08:41.16] [01:08:41.16] sustainable practices as well as as opposed to being the ones who are doing [01:08:46.08] [01:08:46.08] the exploitation I mean there that certainly is that but there they tend to [01:08:51.14] [01:08:51.14] be a lot of them on them on the receiving end so the question is how [01:08:56.04] [01:08:56.04] might countries partner with the US and so this was this was my presentation [01:09:00.23] [01:09:00.23] yesterday this these concepts of innovative finance risk of sharing [01:09:05.03] [01:09:05.03] socially you know the crowd is unnamed watching [01:09:09.02] [01:09:09.02] but how how much you bought a tiny bit pay how might the United States partner [01:09:14.16] [01:09:14.16] with the countries of the region to create more sustainable practices going [01:09:19.17] [01:09:19.17] forward so so much of the generation of revenue is due to multinational and [01:09:26.09] [01:09:26.09] multilateral commerce [01:09:30.09] [01:09:34.21] so question is how do you think that we don't mean the countries with address [01:09:40.22] [01:09:40.22] sustainability also considering the minorities [01:09:46.08] [01:09:51.20] like how would they do it as well [01:09:56.23] [01:10:59.06] they're impossible to say yeah these are these are and there are so many [01:11:07.13] [01:11:07.13] minorities that form the national identity and and don't forget also two [01:11:12.22] [01:11:12.22] things one is the colonial heritage the French never you know bill from Arabs [01:11:26.13] [01:11:26.13] with the same thing in Jews from Earth [01:11:32.20] [01:11:33.16] you know this second thing is that we see [01:11:42.08] [01:11:42.08] we see that there are many deaths you know organizations from outside the [01:11:50.23] [01:11:50.23] region that fund actually certain activities for but we see that [01:12:05.01] [01:12:05.01] with happen in money and in the south of Morocco with organizations that we are [01:12:11.15] [01:12:11.15] making a plea for form of division it doesn't mean that that did there are no [01:12:18.18] [01:12:18.18] tensions in these regions I do think that if you look at the Tunisian and [01:12:32.00] [01:12:32.00] Moroccan Constitution they would say the knives the provided for citizens this [01:12:51.08] [01:12:51.08] has to be yeah yeah absolutely so so formally there is no difference [01:12:58.06] [01:12:58.06] between citizens but in the practice discrimination social that since society [01:13:06.14] [01:13:06.14] organization should address the partnership address that politician [01:13:10.06] [01:13:10.06] should do is only through dialogue and a shame you know blaming in the public [01:13:16.23] [01:13:16.23] space sphere of this kind of discriminatory basis [01:13:23.08] [01:13:26.11] kara and so people would post our clients [01:13:31.03] [01:13:31.03] International is just kind of like a question that was asking about that's [01:13:35.01] [01:13:35.01] kind of [01:13:37.07] [01:13:38.19] so what did the whole question of the CLA's arrow and is we very problematic [01:13:46.18] [01:13:46.18] one because it has been is bigger you know bigger report that has the United [01:13:54.19] [01:13:54.19] States and since then and this and every administration had also a different [01:14:00.13] [01:14:00.13] stance on it so I think it's an internet a very fundamental issue that has to be [01:14:04.23] [01:14:04.23] fought within the United Nations and this is an issue that that is that goes [01:14:11.14] [01:14:11.14] beyond it's not so bad like this because we cannot say it is discrimination [01:14:16.05] [01:14:16.05] because because the UN only has its views on it so you so I'm wondering if [01:14:34.02] [01:14:34.02] you were able to find or sort of locate so you talked about these sort of the [01:14:40.18] [01:14:40.18] kind of the politics of memorialization in peacemaking and the sort of violence [01:14:48.14] [01:14:48.14] is some cases epistemic sort of symbolic violence of cases actual literal [01:14:53.18] [01:14:53.18] violence and i was wondering if you and so he talked about the one that sort of [01:14:59.12] [01:14:59.12] struck me is the doing away with the sort of the three hands the sort of [01:15:03.18] [01:15:03.18] community and I'm kind I'm wondering if if part of your project or if you are [01:15:08.17] [01:15:08.17] able to locate different local groups or different communities that were engaging [01:15:14.20] [01:15:14.20] in making in a different way as a [01:15:17.09] [01:15:17.09] heightened form of resistance or the sort of alternative to that kind of [01:15:22.19] [01:15:22.19] neoliberal militarized top-down relation of here talking about yeah differently [01:15:34.11] [01:15:50.18] process and there is the bottom patient at often times dog [01:15:59.02] [01:15:59.02] or not [01:16:01.11] [01:16:02.09] there's definite the two happening all the Simons [01:16:08.00] [01:16:08.00] in all the cases that I lived [01:16:11.12] [01:16:16.11] but the kind of difference is the ones that people actually create [01:16:25.01] [01:16:25.01] with ones that are often called sort of collective [01:16:33.17] [01:16:34.07] if easily removable whereas the other is so it's not a very equal battle between [01:16:41.18] [01:16:41.18] the forces with [01:16:46.06] [01:16:50.06] different groups have contacted me sort of their marks on Ashley [01:16:58.21] [01:17:03.15] and so different groups had come in like left their marks which we study that [01:17:09.18] [01:17:09.18] have also memory memorials like people have scratched name or comments around [01:17:21.12] [01:17:28.00] we do so so memory is always through it even the hot events are always changing [01:17:34.14] [01:17:34.14] that way for example septums statue in virgo square [01:17:39.23] [01:17:39.23] by the moment that was televised all over the world when that broth was [01:17:46.03] [01:17:46.03] brought down to be melted [01:17:49.10] [01:17:50.06] artificials so you can see how memory can kind of morph into new types of we [01:17:59.13] [01:18:00.02] so differently reading equipment but what I found really and probably most [01:18:04.19] [01:18:04.19] interesting and I think it's that flyer or how artists took us and reconstructed [01:18:11.21] [01:18:11.21] in not in that space with that spaces mallet right [01:18:17.00] [01:18:17.00] but they took and reconstructed that memory part in various forms it was on [01:18:22.23] [01:18:22.23] display nationally visual arts projects with it so also taking control over that [01:18:32.23] [01:18:32.23] memory and adding or editing so we must understand that we've not limited to the [01:18:43.13] [01:18:43.13] physical anymore in terms of memory making so there's all of that [01:18:49.04] [01:19:01.20] well it is my it's my privilege to provide a kind of a brief summation of [01:19:09.04] [01:19:09.04] some of the sort of common themes that I saw running and so this was panel was [01:19:15.09] [01:19:15.09] designed deliberately broad ly as you can see we had a wide variety of of [01:19:24.19] [01:19:24.19] engagements with a kind of an idea of sustainability and that was not that was [01:19:30.20] [01:19:30.20] not an accident and I think that the speakers here kind of in their or kind [01:19:37.06] [01:19:37.06] of demonstrate why there is an importance to thinking about [01:19:43.07] [01:19:43.07] sustainability not as a sort of a definition but as a sort of a sort of [01:19:51.07] [01:19:51.07] touchstone for conversation and it strikes me that it may be in this case [01:19:57.23] [01:19:57.23] less important to talk about what sustainability is with a capital S and [01:20:03.17] [01:20:03.17] to think about what in what thinking about it or using it as a kind of a [01:20:09.01] [01:20:09.01] framework for discussion or engagement with other groups enables us to do what [01:20:13.04] [01:20:13.04] does it enable us to talk about what kind of conversations but also what [01:20:17.22] [01:20:17.22] sorts of things does that framework write out and the kind of idea of being [01:20:23.08] [01:20:23.08] lost in translation I think is important here so I came up with a couple of sort [01:20:28.06] [01:20:28.06] of broad things that I think run through all of the papers of kind of lessons or [01:20:34.10] [01:20:34.10] sort of takeaways about thinking about this thing called sustainability the [01:20:39.04] [01:20:39.04] sort of framework in particular in regards to the middle east and north [01:20:44.23] [01:20:44.23] the first is the importance of coupling sustainability with with social issues [01:20:52.06] [01:20:52.06] that was something which ran throughout so it means a definition sustainability [01:20:58.20] [01:20:58.20] or looking at sustainability not just as a sort of an environmental thing or a [01:21:02.06] [01:21:02.06] sort of a technical thing but also is being deeply embedded in social issues [01:21:05.21] [01:21:05.21] and particularly issues of social of social justice that seems to be [01:21:11.19] [01:21:11.19] something of witches which is critical in this case second is the importance of [01:21:20.08] [01:21:20.08] the local in any sort of projects or any sort of plans or any sort of notions or [01:21:27.14] [01:21:27.14] engagements about what sustainability is and what it can bring the local seems to [01:21:33.02] [01:21:33.02] be more important even than the sort of you know the sort of global and [01:21:37.16] [01:21:37.16] similarly sort of a bottoms or a sort of a grassroots approach seems to be [01:21:45.06] [01:21:45.06] starting with a grassroots approach seems to be more fruitful than working [01:21:51.07] [01:21:51.07] from a kind of a top a top-down approach third the idea that sustainability is [01:22:04.18] [01:22:04.18] political and not just political in the sense of organized political or social [01:22:11.08] [01:22:11.08] movements although I think that is the case when you talk about the involvement [01:22:15.12] [01:22:15.12] of nation-states in ability programs and their engagement [01:22:19.02] [01:22:19.02] with international bodies but I'm also talking about political in a kind of a [01:22:24.09] [01:22:24.09] wider sense of the sentence that politics we can think of it as contests [01:22:29.22] [01:22:29.22] over power and authority and the kind of contests over power and authority that [01:22:35.06] [01:22:35.06] don't happen within the state or don't happen this local level can so for [01:22:40.23] [01:22:40.23] example when I was talking about dr. Milot I was talking about the the sort [01:22:47.19] [01:22:47.19] of the attempts of these people to people to kind of write on the arch and [01:22:53.02] [01:22:53.02] getting a race that is a form of politics and it's a form of politics [01:22:59.06] [01:22:59.06] that often gets written out that we need to be attentive to and also the idea [01:23:02.23] [01:23:02.23] that in those political contests it's not always a fair fight right there's [01:23:10.06] [01:23:10.06] generally one power or one group that has more legitimacy that has more [01:23:15.23] [01:23:15.23] resources that has more power so to be attentive to that the stakes involved to [01:23:22.06] [01:23:22.06] be attentive to politics kind of writ large but also to what voices are are [01:23:29.15] [01:23:29.15] being written out of those politics which voices are not being represented [01:23:33.18] [01:23:33.18] which voices are views dr. Matta means about the feminine of [01:23:39.21] [01:23:39.21] the efforts of feminist groups touted as being sort of seen or sort of [01:23:43.05] [01:23:43.05] represented although they've made you know tremendous strides we have taken a [01:23:46.09] [01:23:46.09] tremendous amount of risk what sorts of practices or ideas are not legible [01:23:52.19] [01:23:52.19] within ideas of sustainability as they sort of exist the fourth thing is the [01:24:02.11] [01:24:02.11] sort of political social and moral salience of religion and the importance [01:24:08.07] [01:24:08.07] of translation so which is not to reduce issues of sustainability or social [01:24:13.23] [01:24:13.23] issues to a kind of you know visit about religion because it's about the Middle [01:24:18.23] [01:24:18.23] East but to look at the ways in which religion may intersect with other kinds [01:24:26.16] [01:24:26.16] of courses so the title translating sustainability I think becomes very [01:24:32.06] [01:24:32.06] important is a necessity for that translation to happen and religion is [01:24:36.20] [01:24:36.20] one of many elements have to do it and then finally it doesn't sound too [01:24:42.12] [01:24:42.12] self-serving I think all of these papers underline the importance of the social [01:24:47.22] [01:24:47.22] sciences and the humanities and their contributions to sustainability IP [01:24:53.08] [01:24:53.08] address in a million debates about it and battles over it generally our [01:24:57.22] [01:24:57.22] disciplines have a very important role to play in that and I think they can [01:25:04.19] [01:25:04.19] often be conveniently overlooked but I think it's it moves us to fight for a [01:25:09.18] [01:25:09.18] place for sort of humanistic and social sciences within the broader sort of [01:25:15.02] [01:25:15.02] apparatus of thinking about these very pressing [01:25:21.21]