2018 READINGS

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Ziad Abu-Rish: State Building

Reading List:

• Eugene Rogan, “Ottomans: Establishing a Permanent Presence in Transjordan,” in Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 44-69.
• Eugene Rogan, “Merchants,” in Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 95-121.
• Tariq Tell, “The Infrastructure of Mandatory Power in the Towns,” in The Social and Economic Origins of Monarchy in Jordan (Palgrave 2013), 73-82.
• Tariq Tell, “The Infrastructure of Mandatory Power in the Steppe,” in The Social and Economic Origins of Monarchy in Jordan (Palgrave 2013), 83-94.
• Tariq Tell, “From Mandate to Kingdom: The Social Origins of Hashemite Power in the Sown,” in The Social and Economic Origins of Monarchy in Jordan (Palgrave 2013), 95-112.
• Steven Heydemann, “The Rise and Decline of the Idea of a Social Pact,” in Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 (Cornell University Press, 1999), 30-54.
• Steven Heydemann, “State, Capital, and the Organization of Social Capital,” in Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 (Cornell University Press, 1999), 55-83.
• Elizabeth Picard, “The Political Economy of Civil War in Lebanon,” in War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East, edited by Steven Heydemann (University of California Press, 2000).​

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Joel Beinin: Labor

Reading List:

• Hanan Hammad, Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt (University of Texas Press, 2016), 1-24.
• Hanan Hammad, Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt (University of Texas Press, 2016), 78-105.
• Andrea Grace Wright, Migratory Pipelines: Labor and Oil in the Arabian Sea (Ph.D. thesis, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, 2015): Chapter 1, pg. 1-30.
• Andrea Grace Wright, Migratory Pipelines: Labor and Oil in the Arabian Sea (Ph.D. thesis, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, 2015): Chapter 1, pg. 31-60.
• Andrea Grace Wright, Migratory Pipelines: Labor and Oil in the Arabian Sea (Ph.D. thesis, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, 2015): Chapter 3, pg. 103-126.
• Andrea Grace Wright, Migratory Pipelines: Labor and Oil in the Arabian Sea (Ph.D. thesis, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan, 2015): Chapter 3, pg. 126-150.
• Joel Beinin, "Foreword to the Turkish edition of Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East” (© January 2017), 1-21.

Adam Hanieh - Approaching Issues of Class Formation

Reading List: 

• McNally, David. “The Dialectics of Unity and Difference in the Constitution of Wage-Labour: On Internal Relations and Working-Class Formation.” Capital & Class, vol. 39, no. 1, Feb. 2015, pp. 131–46. Crossref, doi:10.1177/0309816814564819.
• Ollman, Bertell (2003). “Social Relations as Subject Matter”, Ch.2. in Dance of the Dialectic, (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois). 
• Himani Bannerji “Building from Marx: Reflections on Class and Race”, Social Justice, Vol. 32, No. 4 (102), Race, Racism, and Empire: Reflections on Canada (2005), pp. 144-160.
• Silvia Federici “Precarious Labor: A Feminist Viewpoint”
  http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/precarious-labor- a-feminist-viewpoint/
• Vron Ware “Moments of Danger: Race, Gender, and Memories of Empire”, History and Theory, Vol. 31, No. 4, Beiheft 31: History and Feminist Theory (Dec.,1992), pp. 116-137.
• Ferguson, Susan and David McNally (2014). “Precarious Migrants: Gender, Race and the Social Reproduction of a Global Working Class”, Socialist Register, Volume 51. 

Samer Abboud: Security-Development Nexus

Reading List:

• Mark Duffield, “Introduction” & “The Merging of Security and Development” in Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Security and Development (London: Zed Books, 2001).
• Sophia Hoffman, “Humanitarian security in Jordan’s Azraq camp,” Security Dialogue 48:2 (2017), 97-112.
• Maria Stern and Joakim Ojendal, “Mapping the Security-Development Nexus: Conflict, Complexity, Cacophony, Convergence?” Security Dialogue 41: 1 (February 2010), 5-29.
• Nell Gambiam, “Humanitarianism, Development, and Security in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 48: 2 (May 2016), 382-386.
• Rita Abrahamsen and Michael C. Williams, “Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics,” International Political Sociology 3:1 (March 2009), 1-17.
• David Chandler, “The security-development nexus and the rise of ‘anti-foreign policy,’” Journal of International Relations and Development 10: 4 (December 2007), 362-386.​

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Max Ajl: Imperialism

Reading List:

• Kadri, The Unmaking of Arab Socialism, Chapter 6, 248-284
• Lauesen, Torkil, et al. “Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices | Torkil Lauesen.” Monthly Review, 1 July 2015,
• • https://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/imperialism-and-the-transformation-of-values-into-prices/.
• Smith, John. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century.
• • https://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/imperialism-in-the-twenty-first-century/
• Moyo, Sam, et al. “Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation: Notes on the New Scramble for Africa.” Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, vol. 1, no. 2, Aug. 2012, pp. 181–203. Crossref, doi:10.1177/227797601200100203.

Kristen Alff: Corporate Capital(ism?) in the Colonized World

Reading List:

• Kuran, Timur. The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law:
  Origins and Persistence.
• Alff, Kristen. Levantine Capitalism Paper copy (comments)
• Ireland, Paddy. “Capitalism without the Capitalist: The Joint Stock Company Share and the Emergence of the Modern Doctrine of Separate Corporate Personality.” The Journal of Legal History, vol. 17, no. 1, Apr. 1996, pp. 41–73. 
• Stages of Capital, Chapter 5. 
• STEIN, SARAH ABREVAYA. “Protected Persons? The Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora, the British State, and the Persistence of Empire.” The American Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 1, 2011, pp. 80–108. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23307563.​

Muriam Davis: Race and Capitalism

Reading List:

• Robinson, Cedric J. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000 (1983), pp. 1-68. (prefaces are included but optional)
• Fanon, Franz. "The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness," from The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 2004 (1963), pp. 97-1
• Fraser, Nancy. "Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography - From Exploitation to Expropriation: Historic Geographies of Racialized Capitalism," Economic  Geography, 94(1), 2017, pp. 1-17. 
• Melamed, Jodi. "Racial Capitalism," Critical Ethnic Studies, 1(1), 2015, pp. 76-85.

Sherene Seikaly: Postcolonial Theory

Reading List:

• Susan Buck-Morss, “Envisioning Capital: Political Economy on Display,” Critical Inquiry 21:2 (Winter 1995).
• Michel Foucault, Part III: Discipline,” in Discipline and Punish (New York: Vintage Books, 1995, 1977).
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” in Carry Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (eds), Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (London: Macmillan, 1988)

 

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