Undergraduate Module Descriptor

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

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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.

Asdar Ali, K. & Rieker, M. (ed.) (2009) Comparing cities : the Middle East and South Asia.Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.

Anderson, E. (2000). The middle East: geography and geopolitics. London ; New York : Routledge.

Chatt, D. (2010) Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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

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

Fucarro, N. (ed.) (2016) Violence and the city in the modern Middle East.Stanford, California : Stanford University Press.

Hanieh, A. (2018) Money, markets, andmonarchies: theGulfCooperationCouncilandthepoliticaleconomyofthecontemporarymiddleeast. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Held, C. C. & Cummings, J. T. (2013) Middle East Patterns: Places, People, and Politics. Westview 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.

Singerman, D. & Amar, P. (ed) (2006). Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.

Stetter, S. (ed.) (2012) The Middle East and globalization: encounters and horizons. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan

Stewart, Dona J. (2012) The Middle East today political, geographical and cultural perspectives 

London : Routledge. 

Veracini, L. (2006) Israel and settler society. London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press.