2023 READINGS

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Ziad Abu-Rish: State Formation 

Reading List:

• Rogan, Eugene. Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921, “Establishing a Permanent Presence in Transjordan” (ch. 2).
• ​Vitalis, Robert and Steven Heydemann. “War, Keynesianism, and Colonialism: Explaining State-Market Relations in the Postwar Middle East” (ch. 4) in War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East. 

Max Ajl: The Rural Question and Peasant Economy​

Reading List:

• Halperin, Sandra. “The Post-Cold War Political Topography of the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy” 
• Kadri, Ali. “Revisiting Arab Socialism”

Omar Dahi: The Political Economy of South-South Trade: "Theory and Empirics"

Reading List:

• Dobler, Gregor. “From Scotch Whiskey to Chinese Sneakers: International Commodity Flows and New Trade Networks in Oshikango, Namibia,” Africa 78(3), 2008.
• Doctor, Mahrukh. “Why Bother with Inter-Regionalism? Negotiations for a European Union-Mercosur Agreement,” JCMS 45(2), 2007.

Optional:

• Morvaridi, Behrooz and Caroline Hughes, “South-South Cooperation and Neoliberal Hegemony in a Post-aid World,” Development and Change 49(3), 2018.

Muriam Haleh Davis: Racial Capitalism 

Reading List:

• Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism, chapters 1 and 2.​

Optional:

• Nancy Fraser, “From Exploitation to Expropriation: Historic Geographies of Racialized Capitalism.”

Adam Hanieh
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Reading List:

• Mitchell, Timothy, "Ten Propositions on Oil", from in Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad, and Sherene Seikaly, eds, A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2018).
• Hanieh, Adam, "World Oil: Contemporary Transformations in Ownership and Control" Socialist Register 2023 (Merlin Press,  2022).

Pete Moore: War Economics

Reading List: 

• Kador, “Globalized War Economy”
• Parker & Moore, “The War Economy of Iraq,” MERIP.

Jacob Mundy: Theories of Imperialism 

Reading List: 

• Brewer, Marxist Theories of Imperialism, chapters 6 and 8.

Sherene Seikaly: Postcolonialism: Bodies, Flesh, and Speech

Reading List:

• Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
• Foucault, Michel. Disciple and Punish, selections.
• Spillers, Hortense. “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe”

Rafeef Ziadah: Value Chains and Supply Chains 

Reading List:

• Coe, N. M., & Hess, M. (2007, January). Global production networks: debates and challenges. In GPERG workshop, University of Manchester (Vol. 2526).
• Chua, Charmaine, Martin Danyluk, Deborah Cowen, and Laleh Khalili. "Introduction: Turbulent circulation: Building a critical engagement with logistics." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36, no. 4 (2018): 617-629.
• Chua, Charmaine. "Disruption from above, the middle and below: Three terrains of governance." Review of International Studies 49, no. 1 (2023): 37-52.
• Cowen, Deborah. "Following the infrastructures of empire: Notes on cities, settler colonialism, and method." Urban Geography 41, no. 4 (2020): 469-486.

Optional: 

• Quentin, David, and Liam Campling. "Global inequality chains: Integrating mechanisms of value distribution into analyses of global production." Global Networks 18, no. 1 (2018): 33-56. 
  
• Fox-Hodess, Katy. "Global Solidarity on the Docks." In New Labor Forum, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 50-58. Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, 2022.
  
  

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