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Abstract
War discourse commonly depicts the people and the terrain of opponent countries as intrinsically dangerous or threatening in order to justify the indiscriminate destruction of that land and its people. Building upon this idea, this essay uses Waheed and Aslam’s novels to analyse environmental Othering, which refers to the war strategies of codification and transformation that Other landscapes into militarized zones. Codification indicates reductive normalization of land whereby its ecological complexity is erased and instead it gets produced as threatening and hostile space. This codification gives way to transformation, whereby the land is restructured into a site of containment for the subjugation of enemy factions, as seen in the aggressive transformation of natural spaces into deathscape (The Collaborator) and military bases (The Blind Man’s Garden). In tracing the implications of this phenomenon, this essay posits that environmental Othering fulfils militant utilitarian goals but, in doing so, acts as a threat multiplier for natural spaces by perpetuating epistemic shift, biotic rupture, and topographical cooptation for territories at war.
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