CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - DENA AL-ADEEB Apocalyptic Sensibilities: Navigating the War-Climate Continuum
I suggest that our interconnected relationship to natural and material resources is critical to addressing the crises of our rapidly globalized world underscored by racialized necropolitical destruction. Our political, economic, and cultural paradigms are shaped by the significant challenge of our dependence on oil and gas, which must be reevaluated in order to address the series of interdependent crises facing humanity, such as, the war-climate continuum (the entanglements of climate change and political conflict within contemporary global relations). My research historicizes, contextualizes, and analyzes the discourse and the politics of material culture and natural resources (i.e. oil) as they relate to circuits of destruction; militarization, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism in the Middle East region; more specifically in Iraq and the Persian Gulf. My research investigates these entangled histories that have been shaped by hegemonic strategic interests, crises of capitalism, and techno-utopian projects often aspiring to omniscience and omnipotence. My research underscores my commitment to respond critically to the crisis of the war-climate continuum while utilizing an interdisciplinary methodology rooted in the communities that are impacted by the circuits of violence and destruction.