Theory, politics, and the Arab world : critical responses
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Theory, politics, and the Arab world : critical responses
Routledge, 1990
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization遡
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"The papers were presented at a faculty study group held at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, during the academic year 1987-88"--Pref
"Published in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University"--T.p verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Challenging established thinking about the Middle East, and informed by post-modern, neo-Marxist and feminist theory, these essays argue that the political concerns of the West have influenced the way the Arabs have been treated in Western thinking. The book claims that stereotypical interpretations of Islam and of the "Arab mind" have reflected a political hostility to the Arab world. Examining the issue of Arab representation from a number of academic standpoints, these essays span history, political theory and economy, anthropology and social psychology. This book should be of interest to advanced students of Arab studies.
Table of Contents
1. The Scholarly Point of View: Politics, Perspective, Paradigm, Hisham Sharabi 2. Policy-Making and Theory Building: American Political Science and the Islamic Middle East, Lisa Abu-Lughod 3. Anthropology's Orient: The Boundaries of Theory on the Arab World, Halim Barakat 4. Beyond the Always and the Never: A Critique of Social-Psychological Interpretations of Arab Society and Culture, Halim Barakat 5. The Contemporary Sociology of the Middle East: An Assessment, Samih Farsoun and Lisa Hajjar 6. Taming the West: Trends in the Writing of Modern Arab Social History in Anglophone Academia, Judith E. Tucker 7. Studies of Anglo-American Political Economy: Democracy, Orientalism and the Left, Peter Gran.
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