The transnational Middle East : people, places, borders
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The transnational Middle East : people, places, borders
（The international political economy of new regionalisms series）
Routledge, 2018
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"First published 2017...First issued in paperback 2018"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Transnational Geographies of the Middle East in Times of Globalisation and Uprisings
Part I: People on the Move
1. Managing Transnational Labour in the Arab Gulf: External and Internal Dynamics of Migration Politics since the 1950s
2. Transnational Connections between Egypt and the Gulf: The Experiences of Migrants in the Emirates after the Arab Spring
3. Pharisees, Tartuffes and Agnostics: Migration and Religious Exchanges between Cairo and the Gulf
4. A Life in Asylum: Sudanese Mobility between Egypt and Israel and the Reconfiguration of Political Structures in the Middle East
Part II: Flows, Routes and Borders
5. Gulf Investments in the Middle East: Linking Places, Shaping a Region
6. Sinbad the Sailor Revived? Oman and its Indian Ocean Links
7. The Routes of Globalisation Between Algeria and Dubai: Local Impact and Regional Change
8. Circulating by Default. Yerevan and Erbil, the Backyards of Iranian Mobility
9. The Wartime Emergence of a Transnational Region between Turkey and Syria (2008-2015)
Part III: Circulations of Ideas, Models and Culture
10. Arab Cultural Foundations and the Metamorphoses of Pan-Arabism
11. Youth literature in the Arab Middle East: Creation without Borders?
12. Beirut-Dubai: Translocal Dynamics and the Production of Alternative Urban Art Districts
13. Sustainable Urban Development: A Vector of Regional Integration for the Countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean?
Snapshots
1. Place: The Commercial Neighbourhood of Deira in Dubai: A Supply Site for Algerian Traders
2. People: Mamali Shafahi, Mobile Artist and Curator
3. Activity: A Princely Dream: Kalimat Publishing in Sharjah
4. Place: Salalah: Port of the Indian Ocean
5. People: Hamma: A Tunisian Trader Buying Stock in Ain Fakroun, Algeria
6. Place: Sohar
7. Place: The Algerian-Tunisian Border: A Passage for Oil Smugglers
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