Aaron Jakes | The Route to Freedom: The Suez Canal Base and the “Revolution” of 1951

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Aaron Jakes is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization at the University of Chicago. Prior to moving to Chicago in 2022, he taught for seven years at The New School in New York City. He received his PhD from New York University’s Joint Program in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. His first book, Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism, was published by Stanford University Press in 2020. He is currently working on two new projects. The first, co-authored with Neil Brenner (UChicago) and Jason W. Moore (Binghamton) is tentatively entitled “Hidden Abodes of the Great Acceleration: Fossil Metabolism, Infrastructure, and the Climate/Nature Crisis.” The second, currently entitled “Tilted Waters: The World the Suez Canal Made,” charts the waterway’s many and changing roles in the production of global inequalities over the past two centuries.