2019 READINGS

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Ziad Abu-Rish: State Formation and Market Development

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).​

Max Ajl: The Rural Question and Peasant Economy​

Reading List:

• Henry Bernstein (2006), "Is There an Agrarian Question in the 21st Century?" Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 27:4, 449-460
  
•  Miguel A. Altieri (2009),  "Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty." Monthly Review, 34-42.
  
• Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros (2013), "The Classical Agrarian Question: Myth, Reality and Relevance Today." Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2:93 DOI: 10.1177/2277976013477224.
• Harriet Friedmann (2000). "What on Earth is the Modern World-System? Foodgetting and Territory in the Modern Era and Beyond." Journal of World-Systems Research, 11:2, 480-515.
  

Julia Elyachar​: Postcolonialism and Political Economy of the Middle East​

[Dr. Elyachar's note: Since this is too much material to read for one seminar, please focus on what is most helpful for you. The presentation should present the line of thought in a way that makes it unnecessary to have read everything. Download Dr. Elyachar's complete reading list and summary here.]

Reading List:

• Marx’s Capital: Volume I, Penguin Edition.
     - Chapter 1: “The Commodity”
      - Chapter 27: “The Expropriation of the Agricultural Population     from the Land”
     - Chapter 29: “The Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer” (with footnotes)             
• Aijaz Ahmad, “Orientalism and After: Ambivalence and Cosmopolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said,” in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 27, No. 30 (Jul. 25, 1992), pp. 98- 116. 
• Özgür Türesay. “The Ottoman Empire Seen through the Lens of Postcolonial Studies: A Recent Historiographical Turn.” Revue d’histoire modern contemporaine. 2013/2 (No. 60- 2).
• Selim Deringil. “‘They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery’” The Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate.” Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 45, No. 2 (Apr. 2003), pp. 311-342.
• Zeynep Gülsah Çapan and Ayse Zarakol. “Postcolonial colonialism? The Case of Turkey,” in Epstein, Charlotte (ed.) Norming the World: Postcolonial Critiques of the Concept of ‘Norms’ in International Relations. London and New York: Routledge.
• Lauren Benton. 2010. A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900. Cambridge University Press.
     - Chapter 1: Anomalies of Empire, pp. 1-39
     - Chapter 2: Treacherous Places, Atlantic Riverine Regions and          the Law of Treason,” pp. 40-103. (selections)
     - Chapter 5: Landlocked, pp. 222-278.
• Dieter Grimm, Sovereignty: The Origin and Future of a Political and Legal Concept, (Columbia University Press, 2015).
• Antony Anghie, “Colonialism and the birth of international institutes: the Mandate System of the League of Nations,” in Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2005.​

Adam Hanieh: Finance Capital and Financialization of the World Economy

Reading List: 

• Aalbers, M.B. (2019) “Financialization” In: D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A.L. Kobayashi and R. Marston (Eds) The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Oxford: Wiley.
• Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho,  (2016) “Thirteen Things You Need to Know About Neoliberalism”, Critical Sociology, p.1-22.
• Ruth Felder (2009) “From Bretton Woods to Neoliberal Reforms: the International Financial Institutions and American Power” in Panitch L., Konings M. (eds) American Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 175-197.
• Greta Krippner, (2005) “The financialization of the American economy”, Socio-Economic Review 3, 173–208.
• Jeff Powell (2018) Towards a Marxist Theory of Financialised Capitalism, Greenwich papers in Political Economy, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre.
• Adam Hanieh (2016), “Absent Regions: Spaces of Financialisation in the Arab World”, Antipode, Vol. 48 No. 5
• Adam Hanieh (2019), “Variegated Finance Capital and the Political Economy of Islamic Banking in the Gulf” New Political Economy (forthcoming) – please do not cite or distribute.
• C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh (2017) “The Financialization of Finance? Demonetization and the Dubious Push to Cashlessness in India”, Development & Change, 49(2): 420–436.​

​Pete Moore: The War Economy

Reading List: 

• Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Vintage Books, 2014), pp.29-55.
• Isa Blumi, Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World (University of California Press, 2018), pp. 113-141.
• Diego Gambetta, “Mafia: The Price of Distrust,” in Gambetta, Diego (ed.)​ Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations
• Steven Heydemann, “War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East,” in War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East, edited by Steven Heydemann (University of California Press, 2000)
• Toby Jones, “America, Oil, and War in the Middle East,” The Journal of American History, (June 2012).
• Ali Kadri, Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment (Anthem Press, 2015), pp.115-136.
• Luis Martinez, The Algerian Civil War: 1990-1998 (Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 94-146
• Pete W. Moore, “A Political Economy History of the Jordanian Intelligence Directorate: Authoritarian State Building and Fiscal Crisis.” Forthcoming 2019 Middle East Journal​

Kareem Rabie: Housing, Urbanism, and Social Reproduction 

[Dr. Rabie's note: I realize this is more than 200 pages and not all of it will be necessary to open up a conversation. If participants need to skip or to skim some book sections, I suggest they focus on Lefebvre less for the philosophy than for the urban phenomenon/urban dialectic, on chapter 1 of Kwak, and on chapter 5 of Bou Akr. They might also find the Harvey to overlap with material from earlier sessions; the main points I want it to make are that fixed capital is part of the circulation of capital/value in motion, and that it is productive materially and conceptually.]

Reading List:

• Harvey, D. (2006). The limits to capital. London: Verso. Selections on spatial fix. [Read Chapter 13. Chapter 8 is considered optional additional reading.]
• Lefebvre, H. (2011). The urban revolution. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Selections on rural/urban dialectic. [Read Chapters 1 and 3.]
• Katz, Cindi (2001). "Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction." Antipode 33(4): 709–728.
• Kwak, Nancy H. (2015). A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid. University of Chicago Press. Selections on housing and ideology [Read the Intro and Chapters 1 and 6. Chapter 3 is considered optional additional reading].
• Bou Akar, Hiba (2018) For the War yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Selections on planning and the future [Read the Prologue, Chapters 3 and 5, and the Epilogue].​

Rafeef Ziadah: Circulation, Infrastructures, and Logistics in the Global Economy​

Reading List:

• Cowen, Deborah. "A geography of logistics: Market authority and the security of supply chains." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100.3 (2010): 600-620.
• Pasternak, Shiri, and Tia Dafnos. "How does a settler state secure the circuitry of capital?." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36.4 (2018): 739-757.
• Harvey, David. Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism. Oxford University Press, USA, 2014. CHAPTERS 6 AND 11 only
• Khalili, Laleh. "The Roads to power: The infrastructure of counterinsurgency." World Policy Journal 34.1 (2017): 93-99.
• Ziadah, Rafeef. "Circulating power: humanitarian logistics, militarism and the United Arab Emirates" [Forthcoming Antipode]

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