BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:War and geos: the environmental legacies of militarism - Mark Gri ffiths\, Department of Geography\, Newcastle University DTSTART:20260608T150000Z DTEND:20260608T160000Z UID:TALK246772@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Richard Waters DESCRIPTION:

This talk considers war-earth relations by journeying from the aftermaths of l ate modern war—bombed-out landscapes\, depleted ecosystems\, and public health crises—to the “beforemaths”\, spaces that are under-studied y et instrumental in the preparatory phases of recent assaults by advanced m ilitaries. At the targets of those assaults—e.g.\, Gaza\, Lebanon\, and Iraq—military operations carried out by US-led coalitions and Israel hav e left harmful residues in the landscape\, typically the heavy metals of m unitions that seep and leach in the earth. Those metals are\, of course\, extracted from the earth\, often at similar cost to ecological and human h ealth. For instance\, weapons companies source raw materials from the DRC and Rwanda where mining communities are subject to similar patterns of lon g-term harm as those in Gaza and Iraq. This is a beforemath of war\, a sit e of military violence that reveals a doubly destructive relation between war and earth where practices of extracting and depositing minerals distri bute widespread violence across large tracts of the planet.

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