Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA2176: Spaces of Domination and Resistance in the Middle-East

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Alan, M. (2017) Under Osman's tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and environmental history.

Amineh, M. P. (2007) The Greater Middle East in global politics: social science perspectives on the changing geography of the world politics. Boston: Brill.

Davis, D. K. (2007) Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press.

Davis, D. K. & Burke, E. (eds.) (2011) Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa. Ohio University Press

Elsheshtawy, Y. (ed.) (2004). Planning Middle Eastern Cities: an urban kaleidoscope in a globalizing world. London; New York: Routledge.  

Gharipour, M. (2016) Contemporary Urban Landscape of the Middle East. NY, Oxon, Routledge.

Gregory, D. (ed) (2009) Dictionary of Human Geography. Blackwell.

Kanna, A. (2011) Dubai, the city as corporation. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press.

Khirfan, L.; Good, K.; Horak, M. (2017). Order and disorder: urban governance and the making of Middle Eastern cities. Montreal, Kingston, London: Mc-Gill-Queen’s University Press. 

Lee, R. (et. Al.) (2014) The SAGE handbook of human geography. Los Angeles: Sage.

Mc Neill, J. R. (1992) The mountains of the Mediterranean World: an environmental history. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Mikhail, A. (ed.) (2013) Water on sand: environmental histories of the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press  

Mitchell, T. (2011). Carbon Democracy: political power in the age of oil. London, New York: Verso

Peteet, J. (2017). Space and Mobility in Palestine. Indiana University Press

Said, E.W., (1978). Orientalism. London: Penguin.

Veracini, L. (2010). Settler colonialism: A theoretical overview. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Verhoeven, H. (ed) (2018) Environmental Politics in the Middle East: local struggles, global connections. Oxford: Oxford University Press.