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Politics of Resistance in the Middle East - Reading List Weeks 1-5

Politics of Resistance in Middle East - Reading List Weeks 6-10

Assignment 1 - Deadline 18 November 2019

Assignment 2 - Deadline 13 January 2020

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AS2

Week 1 - What Is Resistance?

Jocelyn A. Hollander and Rachel L. Einwohner, 2004. “Conceptualizing Resistance” in Sociological Forum 19(4): 533-554.

Mahmoud Darwish, 'Identity Card', transl. Salman Masalha and Vivian Eden (1964)

Joel Beinin and Frederic Vairel, 2013. 'Introduction', Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, Stanford University Press, 2nd edition - pp. 1-25 for further reading

Asef Bayat, 2013. 'Introduction', Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Stanford University Press, 2nd edition - for further reading

Charles Tripp, 2013. 'Introduction', The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East, Cambridge University Press - for further reading

Week 2 - Theories of Power and Resistance: Antonio Gramsci

Gramsci - Selections from Prison Notebooks

Team 1 Presentation

Team 2 Presentation

Week 3 - Theories of Power and Resistance: Michel Foucault

Foucault - Selections from the History of Sexuality

Task 1 Presentation

Task 2 Presentation

Week 4 - Theories of power and resistance: Revolutions

Mona El-Ghobashy, 'The Praxis of the Egyptian Revolution', MERIP 2011

Task 1 Presentation

Week 5 - Narratives and symbols: Art, memories, engaged literature/cinema

Jacques Ranciere, 2010. Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics, 'Ten Theses on Politics'

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1995. Silencing the past: power and the production of history

Charles Tripp, 2013. “Art of the Uprisings in the Middle East”, The Brown Journal of World Affairs XIX/11: 185-199.

Toukan - Aid the Politics of Art in Lebanon

Ruba Salih and Sophie Richter-Devroe, 2014. “Cultures of Resistance in Palestine and Beyond: on the politics of art, aesthetics and affect”, Arab Studies Journal, 22(1): 8-27.

E3W Review of Barbara Harlow's Resistance Literature

Video about symbols of resistance

Task 1 Presentation

Task 2 Presentation

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: Transnationalism: Beyond the State

David Featherstone, 'Introduction: Thinking Solidarity Politically' in Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism

Christopher J. Lee, 'Introduction: Between a Moment and an Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung' in Making a World After Empire, Ohio University Press, 2010

Anne Garland Mahler, Chapter 1 Excerpt, 'Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental', in From Tricontinental to Global South, 2018

Nate George, '"In the Hour of Arab Revolution": Tricontinentalism and the Question of Palestine', 2015

Alex Lubin, 'The Black Panthers and the PLO: The Politics of Intercommunalism', in Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Imaginary, 2014

Documentary on Matzpen

Fieldtrip and Wikipedia Exercise: OSPAAAL

House of Illustration, 'Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics' Exhibition link

Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Dossier 15, 'The Art of the Revolution Will Be Internationalist', April 2019

Vijay Prashad narrates short video on his Tricontinental Institute and the inspiration of OSPAAAL

Michael Tyler, Blog on 'Posters of the Cuban Revolution', 2013

OSPAAAL Entry on Wikipedia

Editing a Wikipedia Page - Beginners guide

Guide to Editing Wikipedia

Week 8 - Armed Struggle and Non-Violent Resistance

Frantz Fanon, 'Concerning Violence' from 'The Wretched of the Earth'

Charles Tripp, Chapter One: 'State Capture and Violent Resistance', in 'The Power and the People', Cambridge University Press, 2013

Charles Tilly, 2004. “Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists”, Sociological Theory 22(1): 5-13

Steven Salaita, 'Boycotting Israel as Native Nationalism' in Inter/Nationalism, Minnesota University Press, 2016

Charles Tripp, Chapter 2: 'Contesting Public Space: Resistance as Denial of Authority' in The Power and The People (Cambridge, 2016)

Week 9: Social Movements and Labour Mobilisations

Joel Beinin and Frederic Vairel, 2013. ‘Introduction’, Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa

Joel Beinin and Marie Duboc, 'A Workers' Social Movement on the Margin of the Global Neoliberal Order in Egypt 2004– 2012' in Beinin and Vairel eds, 2013.

Rosie Bsheer, 2018. “A Counter-Revolutionary State: Popular Movements and the Making of Saudi Arabia” in Past and Present

John Chalcraft, 2011. “Migration and Popular Protest in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf in the 1950s and 1960s” in International Labor and Working-Class History 79: 28–47

Maha Abdelrahman, 2012. “A Hierarchy of Struggles? The 'Economic' and the 'Political' in Egypt's Revolution”, Review of African Political Economy 39(13):614-628

Week 10: Passive and 'Everyday' Resistance'

Sherry B. Ortner. “Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 37, no. 1, 1995, pp. 173–193.

Bayat, Asef, 'The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary' in Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Stanford University Press, 2010)

Ismail, Salwa. Political Life in Cairo’s New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, chapter 2. Available online via e-brary

Cihan Tugal, ‘Introduction’, in Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism, Stanford University Press, 2009.

Week 11: Gender and Resistance

bell hooks, 1986. “Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women”, Feminist Review 23: 125-138.

Linda Tabar, 'From Third World Internationalism to "The Internationals": The Transformation of Solidarity with Palestine', in Third World Quarterly, 2017

Laura Bier, ‘Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung’ in Christopher Lee ed., Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and its Political Afterlives, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010.

Hasso, Frances, “Discursive and Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Female Suicide Bombers/Martyrs” in Feminist Review 31 (2005), pp. 23-51

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