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1 online resource (xxiii, 659 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge handbooks |
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Routledge handbooks.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Writing Middle East politics: A field in transit -- I Knowledge frames and horizons -- 2 Middle of where? East of what?: simulated postcoloniality's assemblages, rhizomes, and simulacra -- 3 Travelling the Middle East without a map: three main debates -- 4 Literature in the Arab postcolony -- 5 The primacy of fieldwork: inductive explorations of the MENA state -- 6 Nationalism in the Arab Middle East: resolving some issues |
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7 Studying the international relations of the Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf: a personal account and a theoretical overview -- 8 Committed history: sticking to facts and adhering to principles -- 9 Reimagining the Middle East and its place in the world -- II Towards re-conceptualizations of the democratic and the authoritarian -- 10 Survey research and the study of politics in the Arab world -- 11 Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa: the trajectories of the MENA republics -- 12 'Economic reform' since the 1980s: the political corollaries of a political project |
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13 Overcoming exceptionalism: party politics and voting behaviour in the Middle East and North Africa -- 14 Elections in authoritarian contexts: the case of Algeria -- III The secular and the religious: questions and contests -- 15 The challenges of researching political Islam -- 16 The other side of Middle Eastern studies: on democracy, violence and Islam -- 17 Sectarian fault lines in the Middle East: sources of conflicts, or of communal bonds? -- 18 The unseen in the Islamic awakening: walking with the Muslim Jesus -- 19 Re-thinking shīʿī political theology |
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20 Patronage in reverse and the secular state in Egypt -- IV Gendered relations and realities: critical interpretations -- 21 Gender and politics in the Middle East -- 22 Islam and resistance in the Middle East: a methodology of Muslim struggle and the impact on women -- 23 Gender, religion, and politics in Jewish and Muslim contexts: the case of Israel -- 24 Gender: still a useful category to analyze Middle East political history? A view from Egypt (1919-2019) -- V Borderline politics: claims and counter-claims -- 25 Social movement studies and the Middle East |
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26 Sports and politics: the turbulent world of Middle East soccer -- 27 Various faces of violent radicalisation in the Syrian crisis: the case of Tripoli -- 28 Reconceiving the struggle between non-state armed organizations, the state and 'the international' in the Middle East -- 29 Start with the art: new ways of understanding the political in the Middle East -- 30 Truth to power: on digital scene making -- 31 Bread and its subsidy: some reflections -- VI Conceptual categories: reflexive notes -- 32 Distributive politics in the Middle East |
| Summary |
"Drawing on various perspectives and analysis, the Handbook problematizes Middle East politics through an interdisciplinary prism, seeking a melioristic account of the field. Thematically organized, the chapters address political, social and historical questions by showcasing both theoretical and empirical insights, all of which are represented in a style that ease readers into sophisticated induction in the Middle East. It positions the didactic at the centre of inquiry. Contributions by forty-four scholars, both veterans and newcomers, rethink knowledge frames, conceptual categories, and fieldwork praxis. Substantive themes include secularity and religion, gender, democracy, authoritarianism, and new "borderline" politics of the Middle East. Like any field of knowledge, the Middle East is constituted by texts, authors and readers, but also by the cultural, spatial and temporal contexts within which diverse intellectual inflections help construct (write - speak) academic meaning, knowing and practice. By denaturalizing notions of singularity of authorship or scholarship, the Handbook plants a diologic interplay animated by multi-vocality, multimodality, and multi-disciplinarity. Targeting graduate students and young scholars of political and social sciences, the Handbook is significant for understanding how the Middle East is written and re-written, read and re-read (epistemology, methodology), and for how it comes to exist (ontology)"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Larbi Sadiki is Professor of Arab Democratization at Qatar University. His blogs have appeared in Aljazeera, and his publications have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, and Portuguese. He is editor of the Routledge Series on Middle Eastern Democratization and Government, and has been a Non-resident Fellow at Carnegie Middle East Center (Beirut), Senior Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, and an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney's Department of Arabic Languages and Cultures |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2020) |
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Politics and government -- Study and teaching
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Social history -- Study and teaching
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Education
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979- -- Study and teaching
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Middle East -- Social conditions -- Study and teaching
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Middle East -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090514
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sadiki, Larbi, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019051247 |
| ISBN |
9781351692588 |
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1351692585 |
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9781315170688 |
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131517068X |
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9781351692601 |
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1351692607 |
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1351692593 |
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9781351692595 |
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