Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions : From Contemporary Conditions to Alternative Futures.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taha, Dina.

Series:

Decolonization and Social Worlds Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization.

Decolonization--Arab countries.

Arab countries.

Arab countries--Politics and government--21st century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

How do colonial legacies shape contemporary realities in the Arab-majority region?What possibilities exist for decolonial futures?This groundbreaking volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to explore power, resistance and knowledge production across diverse social, political and ecological landscapes.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions From Contemporary Conditions to Alternative Futures

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Decolonization and Arab-​Majority Region(s)

From Modernity to coloniality and to decoloniality

Reconceptualizing Modernity

External critiques toward decoloniality

Chapter outline and volume's intervention

Opening notes

Notes

Bibliography

Part I The Colonial Condition: : Structures and Concepts

1 A Killing Machine: Exploitation, Extraction, and the Modern/​Colonial State

Introduction

Disciplining and punishing: the state as a killing machine

The state and the colony: civilization, exploitation, extraction, and death

The state as the colony: the state of exception as progress

Conclusion

References

2 Race as a Category for Analysing Social Inequalities in Contemporary Morocco: Making a Case

Race, colonialism, and enslavement: historical foundations of racial hierarchies in Morocco

Race and the contemporary lived experiences of black-​skinned peoples in Morocco

Blackness as racial social marker of inferiority

Black-​skinned peoples and everyday racial discrimination

Theoretical and political implications

Elimination and hoped mobilization of race as a tool for analysing social inequalities

Race and black-​skinned solidarity

3 Rethinking Israeli Development towards Palestinians of '48: Economic Policies and Colonial Structures

Development as depoliticization

Development through dualities and hierarchies

Palestinian life, (ab)normality, and development

Conclusion.

Notes

4 Thinking Localization, Refugee Leadership, and Humanitarian Funding from the Eastern Mediterranean: Selective Empowerment or Systemic Colonizing Exclusion?

Refugee-​led organizations: genesis and structure in the Eastern Mediterranean crisis context

Unsettling Eurocentric humanitarian narratives: collaborative knowledge production with RLOs

Rhetoric versus reality: the selective empowerment of localization

The 'local' in localization

Capacity building or capacity bias?

Refusals and possibilities

5 Identifying Colonial Power in Contemporary SRHR in Egypt: Reflections from the Field

Context, background, and methodological notes

Aid as control: funding cycles and structural dependency in SRHR

Practitioners as intermediaries: difference, power, and Western logics in SRHR

Western-​centric trends: neocolonial politics of shifting SRHR priorities

Orientalist colonial gaze in SRHR practice

Part II Toward Decoloniality: : Tensions, Resources, and Sites of Struggle

6 On Reclaiming Fanon: From and For the Arab Maghreb

Fanon's connections to the Maghreb

Fanon's geographic and professional residency: a brief sketch

Fanon's intellectual and analytical engagements with the Maghreb: a longer history

Maghrebian post-​colonial Fanonian presence

The Algerian case

The Moroccan case

The Tunisian case

Two of Fanon's interlocutors among Arab sociologists: a dynamic intellectual conversation

Tunisian Frej Stambouli

Lebanon's Mahdi Amel

7 Knowledge Production in the Arab-​Majority Region and Unlearning in the Field: Autoethnographic Reflections from Lebanon towards Alternative Research Politics.

Coloniality, decolonization, and knowledges for Arab-​majority regions

Unlearning and epistemic alternatives

Private-​public divide

Gender question

The liberal subject

Note

8 Navigating Decoloniality in the Arab-​Majority Region: Reflections from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Research and education in the Arabian Gulf: a historicization

Doha Institute for graduate studies: a different approach

Imagining decoloniality: awareness and complexities

Languages and localization amidst global hegemonic standards

Hollowed decolonialities and scepticisms

Racialized double burden on Arab decolonial scholars

Inter-​Arab decolonial dialogues and infrastructural inequities

Conclusion for a way forward

9 (Re)Thinking Green Public Spaces in Beirut: Toward a Decolonial Political Ecology

Contextualizing and historicizing

Green public spaces in Beirut

Toward a decolonial political ecology of/​for Beirut

10 Modernity's Ecological Crisis: Thinking Alternatives Through 'Irfan

Notes on context and method

On 'Irfan

Shariati's desert writings

The human and other-​than-​human in Shariati's 'Hymn'

Conclusion Towards inspiration and dialogue for the region

Part III Concluding Discussions

11 Thinking (alongside) the Arab Council for Social Sciences: Conversation with Seteney Shami and Moushira Elgeziri on Decoloniality, Knowledge, and Praxis, and/​in/​for the Arab Region

12 Decoloniality after Gaza, or toward a Global Intifada

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-4056-5

9781529240566

OCLC:

1564841833