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PESI 2019 SCHEDULE

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DAY ONE: Friday 7 June 
4441 George Mason Blvd Merten Hall, Room 1204
Pickup: 9:20

10:00-11:30: Core Session 1 (Elyachar)
 
11:30-11:50: 20 Minute Break
 
11:50-12:45: Brief Session 1 (Haleh-Davis)

12:45-2:00: Lunch
 
2:00-3:30: Thematic Panel 1 (Professional Development)

3:30-3:50: 20 Minute Break

3:50-4:45: Brief Session 2 (Abboud)

4:45-5:00: 15 Min Break

5:00-6:30: Book Talk/Public Event

6:30: Group Dinner
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DAY TWO: Saturday 8 June (Merten Hall 1204)
4441 George Mason Blvd Merten Hall, Room 1204
Pickup: 8:20

9:00-10:30: Core Session 2 (Moore)

10:30-10:50: 20 Minute Break

10:50-11:45: Student Breakout 1

11:45-12:05: 20 Min Break

12:05-1:00: Brief Session 3 (Marshall)

1:00-2:15: Lunch

2:15: Core Session 3 (Ajl)

3:45-4:05: 20 Min Break

4:05-5:00: Thematic Panel 2 (Neoliberalism)

5:30: Dinner on your own.
[Faculty meeting on MESPI.]

DAY THREE: Sunday, 9 June 2018
Johnson Center 334 (Meeting Room E)
Pickup: 9:20

10:00-11:30: Core Session 4 (Abu-Rish)

11:30-11:50: 20 Minute Break

11:50-12:45: Brief Session 4 (Haddad)

12:45-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Student Breakout 2

3:00-3:20: 20 Minute Break

3:20-4:45: Core Session 5 (Hanieh)

4:45- 5:05: 20 Minute Break

5:05-6:00: Student Breakout 3

6:00: On-site group Dinner


DAY FOUR: Monday 10 June 
4441 George Mason Blvd Merten Hall, Room 1204
Pickup: 8:20

9:00-10:30: Core Session 6 (Ziadah)

10:30-10:50: 20 Min Break

10:50-11:50: Student Breakout 4

11:50-12:50: Working Lunch (review)

12:50-2:20: Core Session 7 (Rabie)

2:20: END of PESI

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PESI 2019 FELLOW PROJECTS

• Camille Cole (Yale University): Bandit Capitalism: Nineteenth Century Basra between Empires
• Zachary Smith (University of Pennsylvania): Colonial Accumulation: Institutions and Ideologies in Settler Societies
• Sari Madi (University of Montreal / CRIMT): The political economy of legal changes in the MENA region: evidence from Tunisia and Lebanon
• Patrick Higgins (The University of Houston): Title TBA
• Lucy Garbett (UC Irvine): Social Reproduction, Neoliberalism, and Resistance: the Politics of Care in Palestine
• Jonathan Viger (York University): Historicizing the Political Geography of the post-Ottoman Middle East: Social Conflicts, Competing Sovereignties, and Changing Territoriality
• Gabriel Young (NYU): Between and Beyond the Country and the City: Basra, Iraq, and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf
• Gabi Kirk (UC Davis): Cultivating and Claiming Indigeneity: Agriculture, Capitalism, and Settler-Colonialism in Palestine-Israel
• Brittany Cook (University of Kentucky): Geopolitical Ecologies of Agricultural Development: A Comparison of Olive Oil Production in Jordan and Palestine​
• Arash Davari (Whitman College): The Politics of Disavowal: Revolutionary Iran in the Wake of 68
• Aras Koksal (University of Minnesota): Farmers to Engineers? Higher Education and Social Change in Neoliberal Turkey
• Layla Hashemi (George Mason University): Media and Resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)

PESI 2019 READINGS

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Ziad Abu-Rish: State Formation and Market Development​
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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.​

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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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AGENDA FOR PESI 2017

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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE 2017 WORKSHOP

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READINGS:

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Robert Vitalis: Imperialism

Reading List:​​

• Robert Vitalis, “Introduction” & “Conclusion: The High Plane of Dignity and Discipline” in White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of International Relations (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015).
• Julian Go, “Introduction,” “Weary Titans: Declining Powers, New Imperialisms,” “The Dynamics of Imperialism,” & “Conclusion” in Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Sandra Halperin: State Formation

Reading List [Intro to Readings & Session]:​​

• Sandra Halperin, Re-Envisioning Global Development: a ‘Horizontal Perspective’ (London: Routledge, 2013), Chapters 2 (pp. 32-60), 3  (pp. 61-90), and 4 (pp. 91-116).
• Sandra Halperin, “The Post-Cold War Political Topography of the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy.” Third World Quarterly 26:7 (December 2005), 1135-1156.
• Sandra Halperin, ‘Power to the People: nationally-embedded development and mass armies in the making of democracy’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37:3 (May 2009), 605-630.
• Nazih Ayubi, Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009; Chapter 1 (pp. 1-37).

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Max Ajl: World Systems Theory

​​Reading List:

• Karl Marx, Grundrisse, introduction.
• Dale Tomich, “Small Islands and Huge Comparisons,” Social Science History 18, no. 03 (1994): 339–358.
• Tosun Aricanli and Mara Thomas, “Sidestepping Capitalism: On the Ottoman Road to Elsewhere,” Journal of Historical Sociology 7, no. 1 (1994): 25–48.
• Philip McMichael, “Incorporating Comparison within a World-Historical Perspective: An Alternative Comparative Method,” American Sociological Review 55, no. 3 (June 1990).
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America (Dependencia Y Desarrollo En América Latina, Engl.) (Univ of California Press, 1979), preface to English edition.
• Janet Abu-Lughod, “Restructuring the Premodern World-System,” Review (Fernand Braudel Center), 1990, 273–286.
• Terence K. Hopkins, “World-Systems Analysis, Methodological Issues,” in Immanuel Wallerstein, Terence K. Hopkins, and others, World-Systems Analysis: Theory and Methodology (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1982), pp. 145-158.

Suggested Readings:

• Samir Amin (1974) “Accumulation and development: a theoretical model,” Review of African Political Economy, 1:1, pp. 9-26.
• Ali Kadri, “Islam and Capitalism: Military Routs, Not Formal Institutions,” Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2016, 161.

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.

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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).

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: Agriculture

​​Reading List:

• Bernstein, Henry “V.I. Lenin and A.V. Chayanov: looking back, looking forward,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 36: 1, 55 — 81
• Duncan, C. “The Centrality of Agriculture: History, Ecology and Feasible Socialism.” Socialist Register 36, no. 36 (2009).
• Moyo, Sam, Praveen Jha, and Paris Yeros. “The Classical Agrarian Question: Myth, Reality and Relevance Today.” Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 2, no. 1 (2013): 93–119.
• Friedmann, Harriet. “World Market, State, and Family Farm: Social Bases of Household Production in the Era of Wage Labor.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 20, no. 4 (October 1, 1978): 545–86.
• McMichael, P. “Rethinking Globalization: The Agrarian Question Revisited.” Review of  International PoliticaI Economy 4, no. 4 (1997): 630–662.
• Patnaik, Utsa. “Some Aspects of the Contemporary Agrarian Question.” Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2012): 233–54.
• Shanin, Thedor. “Chayanov's treble death and tenuous resurrection: an essay about understanding, about roots of plausibility and about rural Russia,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 36, 1 (2009) 83-101.

 
Suggested Readings:
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• Henry Bernstein (2016) Agrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis, Journal of Peasant Studies, 43:3, 611-647
• Philip McMichael (2016) Commentary: Food regime for thought, Journal of Peasant Studies, 43:3, 648-67
• Harriet Friedmann (2016) Commentary: Food regime analysis and agrarian questions: widening the conversation, Journal of Peasant Studies, 43:3, 671-692