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  • Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the Twenty-First Century

    Intersections and Prospects

    by Yossi Ben-Harush, Dzmitry Shavialiou, Amir Rezaeipanah, Özgür Kaymak, Yakov Rabkin, Yaacov Yadgar, Aharon Klieman, Shlomit Attias, Achim Rohde, Dani Kranz, Tryce Hyman, Alan T. Levenson, Johannes Becke ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
    Jewish studies has been a vibrant academic discipline for many decades, and since the establishment of the Association for Israel Studies in 1985 to engage in research on the history, politics, society, and culture of the modern state of Israel, the two disciplines have worked along parallel tracks in universities. This book focuses on the vibrant academic field of Israel studies and its complex ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • State-Society Relations in Ba'thist Iraq

    Facing Dictatorship

    by Achim Rohde ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Scholarship on Iraq under the Ba’th regime has traditionally focused on the rule of Saddam Hussein and his narrow inner circle. The centrality of the former president in Iraqi politics until spring 2003 and the tyranny of his regime were evident, and available sources concerning developments inside Iraqi society during that period were scarce.This book explores whether traditional paradigms of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective

    The Homophobic Argument

    Edited by Achim Rohde, Christina von Braun, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum ...
    Series series Sexualities in Society
    National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective explores how modern identity politics around the world are gendered and sexualized in multiple ways. Constructions of the imagined collective "self" often contain references to a heteronormative order, whereas relevant internal or external "others" are often felt to deviate from this order through their gendered or sexual practices. By ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East

    Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula

    Edited by Samira Alayan, Achim Rohde, Sarhan Dhouib ...
    Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials, representations of the “Self” and the “Other” offer insights into the contemporary dynamics of identity ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Edward Said

    A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

    Edited by Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom ...
    Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said’s life and work, spans his ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Dignity in Adversity

    Human Rights in Troubled Times

    by Seyla Benhabib ...
    The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial.Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

    by Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

    by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Comparative Law as Critique

    by Günter Frankenberg ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
    'A leading figure in critical legal studies and renowned scholar of comparative constitutionalism, Frankenberg urges us forward, offering a new taxonomy for critical work. He illustrates its potential in terrific chapters on recent transnational legal movements: to regulate the veil, provide access to justice and reinvigorate human rights as a language of justification. A methodological tour de ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Contemporary Arab Thought

    Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

    by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab ...
    In the last third of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between totalizing doctrines—nationalist, Marxist, and religious—and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence and a widespread sense of malaise, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, injustice, failed development, and successive defeats by ... Read more

    $35.99 USD