The transnational Middle East : people, places, borders / edited by Leïla Vignal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vignal, Leïla, editor.

Series:

International political economy of new regionalisms series

The international political economy of new regionalisms series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism--Social aspects--Middle East.

Regionalism.

Transnationalism--Social aspects--Middle East.

Transnationalism.

Globalization--Social aspects--Middle East.

Globalization.

Social conditions.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Regionalism--Social aspects.

Middle East--Social conditions--21st century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

The Middle East has been undergoing new crises since the powerful socio-political uprisings known as the Arab Spring took place in several countries in 2011. Some countries are experiencing a long-term collapse of their political and social structures out of internal conflicts and external interventions. The Transnational Middle East posits that, in the Middle East, the development of regional dynamics, of processes and circulations of all kinds, can be documented. In this regard, the approaches it develops - 'bottom-up' regionalisation, 'globalisation from below' - allow for a better understanding of the ways in which the Middle East is part of global transformations. The book analyses how, through their practices, Middle East societies elaborate a regional space which is not institutionalised. Based on fieldwork in the Middle East, the book provides venues for further theoretical elaboration on globalisation and contemporary societies, as well as on processes of regionalisation. It draws on the emergence of genuine regional spaces of culture, art, economic activity, human circulation - which supplement and do not contradict - other infra-national, national, or global social processes. As in other areas of the world, these transformations are to a large extent the mode of the Middle East's insertion into globalisation. In this respect, they go against standard narratives of the supposed 'exceptionalism' of the region. This book will be a great contribution to comparative politics, Middle Eastern studies, globalisation and international relations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Transnational geographies of the Middle East in times of globalisation and uprisings / by Leïla Vignal

Managing transnational labour in the Arab Gulf : external and internal dynamics of migration politics since the 1950s / Hélène Thiollet

Transnational connections between Egypt and the Gulf : the experiences of migrants in the Emirates after the Arab Spring / Delphine Pagès-El Karoui

Pharisees, tartuffes and agnostics : migration and religious exchanges between Cairo and the Gulf / Lucile Gruntz

A life in asylum : Sudanese mobility between Egypt and Israel and the reconfiguration of political structures in the Middle East / Pauline Brücker

Gulf investments in the Middle East : linking places, shaping a region / Armelle Choplin and Leïla Vignal

Sinbad the sailor revived? : Oman and its Indian Ocean links / Steffen Wippel

The routes of globalisation between Algeria and Dubai : local impact and regional change / Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel

Circulating by default : Yerevan and Erbil, the backyards of Iranian mobility / Amin Moghadam and Serge Weber

The wartime emergence of a transnational region between Turkey and Syria (2008-2015) / Benoît Montabone

Arab cultural foundations and the metamorphoses of pan-Arabism / Franck Mermier

Youth literature in the Arab Middle East : creation without borders? / Mathilde Chèvre

Beirut-Dubai : translocal dynamics and the production of alternative urban art districts / Sophie Brones and Amin Moghadam

Sustainable urban development : a vector of regional integration for the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean? / Pierre-Arnaud Barthel

Place : the commercial neighbourhood of Deira in Dubai : a supply site for

Algerian traders / Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel

People : Mamali Shafahi, mobile artist and curator / Amin Moghadam

Activity : a princely dream : kalimat publishing in Sharjah / Mathilde Chèvre

Place : Salalah : port of the Indian Ocean

Steffen wippel

People : Hamma : a Tunisian trader buying stock in Ain Fakroun, Algeria / Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel

Place : Sohar / Steffen Wippel

Place : the Algerian-Tunisian border : a passage for oil smugglers / Brahim Benlakhlef and Pierre Bergel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138690899

1138690899

OCLC:

945582479