Module ARA2176 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA2176: Spaces of Domination and Resistance in the Middle-East
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Spaces of Colonialism
- Engineering the territory of the nation-state
- Landscapes of development and neo-liberalism
- Cityscapes
- Heritages and Spaces of Memory
- Geographies of mobilities and containment: beyond walls and camps
- Tahrir square and Gezi park: resisting in the public spaces
- A place called home: a private space of resistance?
- Global warming and transformation of energy landscape
- The construction and predation of nature in the Middle East
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | Lecture (1 hour) followed by seminar (1 hour) |
| Guided Independent Study | 44 | Weekly reading (4 hours per week) |
| Guided Independent Study | 11 | Class Preparation (1 hour per week) |
| Guided Independent Study | 36 | Essay Preparation (20 hours reading+16 hours writing) |
| Guided Independent Study | 37 | Project Preparation (20 hours researching+ 17 hours preparing project/presentation/writing) |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
