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Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia : Moving from the Periphery.
In this book scholars specializing in the Middle East and Central Asia provide fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Authors draw on multiple disciplinary traditions and cover a broad geography, in order to challenge understandings and propose new forms...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington Books,
2018.
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- Cover; Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia; Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia: Moving from the Periphery; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Alternative Frameworks Accounting for the Overlooked; Chapter 1; Emerging Trends and Debates in Gulf Studies; A "Gulf Moment" in Middle Eastern Studies?; The State of the Gulf Literature; What Is Changing (and Not Changing) in the Gulf?; Gaps in Gulf Studies; In Lieu of a Conclusion: Some Likely Trends in Gulf Studies; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2; Impending Decline?
- Power as Resources Power as Influence; Power as National Performance; Countermeasures by Saudi Arabia; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3; Iranian Nationalism from its (Afghan) Margins; Finding the Margins; Narratives of Nationhood; Crossing Borders; An Open Door; An Afghan-free Zone?; Iran's Afghan Margins; A Marginal Approach; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 4; Between (Ethno- )Nationalism and Political Islam; Nation-building, Kemalism, and the Place of Ethnicity; Examining the Compatibility of Islam and Modernity; Inclusion-or Exclusion-and its Impacts
- Inclusion and Exclusion in post-1990 Turkey Kurdish Political Parties: Beyond Nationalism and Islam; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5; State Formation and Social Conflict in Syria; Explanatory Narratives of Social Conflict in Syria; State Formation Theory; State Atrophy and the Place of Locality; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 6; Seen from a Distance; What was "Islamic Art"?; Indigenous Australian Analogies; The Influence of Individuals and Institutions; Case Studies in Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art and Conflict; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7
- The Afghan Threat to the Security of the Central Asian Nations The Official Central Asian Discourse on Afghanistan: Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; The Official Western Discourse; Western Scholarly Discourse on Central Asia-Afghanistan; From "Locus of Dangers" to "Locus of Charlatans"; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 8; When East Looks West to the Middle East; Shall the Twain Meet?; Scholarly Reflections and Representations; A Shared History of Colonization; China and the West in the Middle Eastern Theater; An American Offer Beijing Could Hardly Refuse
- Beijing's Foreign Policy-Domestic Agenda Conundrum Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Contributors