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Wertheim Lecture by Amitav Ghosh | The Nutmeg Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

University of Amsterdam

In this lecture Amitav Ghosh traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Building on his book 'The Nutmeg’s Curse', Ghosh argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism