Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East - Softcover

Deeb, Lara; Winegar, Jessica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804781249 ISBN 13: 9780804781244

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2015

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"Anthropology's Politics is a bold book. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar paint a disturbing picture of the pressures that shape how anthropologists research and teach about the Middle East and North AfricaDeeb and Winegar have written an important and well-researched book that can serve as a touchstone for the debates and backlash that are sure to come." -- Lesley Gill * American ethnologist * "Going against the grain, Anthropology's Politics: Disciplining the Middle East is a daring scholarly work about the complicity of the discipline of anthropology and its practitioners with the US/western hegemonic mind-set against the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region....[It] is an eye-opener for students, academicians, and readers at large about the hegemonic silencing of Middle East and North African voices in the production of knowledge." -- Arab Studies Quarterly "Anthropology's Politics provides an invaluable and stunning wake-up call about the most urgent challenges facing academia today. Provocative and incisive, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned with U.S. empire, neoliberal corporatization, and the political dynamics that shape higher education in the United States." -- Nadine Suleiman Naber * University of Illinois at Chicago * "Incisive, forthright, and necessary. This unflinching account of the challenges that confront anthropologists, and anthropology's institutions, when engaging the politics of the Middle East is a must read for scholars in any field who are concerned with our professional responsibilities and our human obligations." -- Ilana Feldman * George Washington University * "Anthropology's Politics breaks a profound silence by examining how overbearing political forces shape the work of American anthropologists working on the Middle East and North Africa. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how work in certain regions is discouraged, how research on important political topics is devalued, and how scholars are dissuaded from using their professional knowledge to contribute to policy discussions and advocate for political action. This is an invaluable book that shatters a large and imposing disciplinary wall." -- David Price * Saint Martin's University *

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Anthropology's Politics provides a hard-hitting account of what it's like to study and teach about Middle East politics and culture in the heart of U.S. empire.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0804781249
• ISBN 13: 9780804781244
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288