Routledge handbook of Middle East politics : interdisciplinary inscriptions / edited by Larbi Sadiki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sadiki, Larbi, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks.

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Politics and government--1979---Study and teaching.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

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.

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

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

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 shī?ī political theology

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-69259-3

1-351-69260-7

1-315-17068-X

9781315170688

OCLC:

1128887081