Middle East Studies for the New Millennium : Infrastructures of Knowledge /

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Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is in...

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Otros Autores: Miller-Idriss, Cynthia (Editor ), Shami, Seteney Khalid (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Education.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
United States.
Middle East.
Moyen-Orient > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis.
Middle East > Study and teaching > United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the many crises of middle east studies / Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss
  • Disciplines and their boundaries
  • Scientific knowledge, liberalism, and empire : American political science in the modern Middle East / Lisa Wedeen
  • Middle East in sociology, sociology in the Middle East / Reşat Kasaba
  • Oil on the waters? Middle East studies and economics for the Middle East / Karen Pfeifer
  • The interdisciplinary spatial turn and the discipline of geography in Middle East studies / Amy Mills and Timur Hammond
  • Middle East studies and the university
  • The dual logics of international education in the global university : the case of Middle Eastern studies at New York University / Jonathan Z. Friedman and Cynthia Miller-Idriss
  • Arabic language learning on US campuses after 9/11 : "needs" and challenges / Elizabeth Anderson Worden and Jeremy Browne
  • Trends in the production of knowledge about the Middle East within and across disciplines : a survey of PhD dissertations, 2000/2010 / Laura Bier
  • Islamic studies in US universities / Charles Kurzman and Carl W. Ernst
  • The politics of knowledge
  • Area studies and the decade after 9/11 / Seteney Shami and Marcial Godoy-Anativia
  • In the shadow of orientalism : the historiography of U.S.-Arab relations / Ussama Makdisi
  • The risk of knowing / Irene Gendzier
  • Afterword : Middle East studies for the new millennium : infrastructures of knowledge / Lisa Anderson
  • Appendix. Overview of data collection and project methodology
  • Jonathan Z. Friedman.

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