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Author: Nathalie Peutz

Nathalie Peutz is a cultural anthropologist at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on forced migration, displacement and immobility, conservation and development, and identity and heritage in the Arab world and the Western Indian Ocean region. She is the author of Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen (Stanford, 2018) and co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (with Nicholas De Genova, Duke , 2010).

Nathalie Peutz

Nathalie Peutz is a cultural anthropologist at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on forced migration, displacement and immobility, conservation and development, and identity and heritage in the Arab world and the Western Indian Ocean region. She is the author of Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen (Stanford, 2018) and co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (with Nicholas De Genova, Duke , 2010).

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Afterlives of Revolution: Nathalie Peutz’s comments

June, 2024 / By Nathalie Peutz

In the mid-2000s, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the impact of environmental conservation and development projects on the Yemeni island […]

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As Syria is being 'freed' from its dictator, there is no better moment to read @NabilAlMafrachi's reflections on Iraqi art and imperial nostalgia. These fieldnotes are brought to us from his last stay in his former home-city, Baghdad. Enjoy!

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