Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia [electronic resource] : moving from the periphery / edited by Katlyn Quenzer, Maria Syed and Elisabeth Yarbakhsh.

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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Other Authors: Quenzer, Katlyn, 1988- (Editor)
Syed, Maria, 1982- (Editor)
Yarbakhsh, Elisabeth, 1981- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
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Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia : Moving from the Periphery
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : alternative frameworks: accounting for the overlooked / Katlyn Quenzer and Maria Syed
  • Emerging trends and debates in Gulf studies / Matthew Gray
  • Impending decline? a reassessment of Saudi power / Maria Syed
  • Iranian nationalism from its (Afghan) margins / Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
  • Between (ethno-)nationalism and political Islam : the Kurdish movement as a "third way" in Turkey / William Gourlay
  • State formation and social conflict in Syria : causalities, unintended consequences, and analytical trajectories / Harout Akdedian
  • Seen from a distance : political contexts for Middle Eastern contemporary art / Sam Bowker
  • The Afghan threat to the security of the central Asian nations : myth or reality? / Azam Isabaev
  • When East looks West to the Middle East / Ian Nelson.