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PRME Assignment 1 2024

Assignment 1 (AS1) 2024/25

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Topic 1: Introduction

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)

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

Week 1 Introduction PRME

Topic 2: Theories of Power and Resistance

*John Chalcraft, Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Introduction pp. 13-46 only.

*Hall, Stuart. 'Gramsci and Us', in The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the. Crisis of the Left. London: Verso, 1988.

*Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, 'Can the (sub)altern resist? A dialogue between Foucault and Said', in Netton, Ian, ed. 2013. Orientalism Revisited : Art, Land and Voyage. Oxford: Taylor &amp; Francis Group.

*Vivienne Jabri, 'Michel Foucault's Analytics of War: The Social, the International, and the Racial', International Political Sociology, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2007, Pages 67–81.

Mark Kelly, 'Foucault: Political Thought' (helpful online guide)

PRME 2 Seminar Slides

Topic 3: Colonialism and Violent Resistance

Topic 3: Seminar Questions and Full Readings

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, pp. 19-25 (Algeria)

Hisham Sharabi, 'Liberation or Settlement: The Dialectics of Palestinian Struggle', Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter, 1973), pp. 33-48.

Steven Salaita, 'Boycotting Israel as Native Nationalism' in Inter/Nationalism, Minnesota University Press, 2016, pp. 1-10 ONLY

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

PRME 3 Seminar Slides (Non)Violent Resistance

Topic 3 Student Presentation

Topic 4: Culture and Resistance: Narratives and Symbols

Topic 4: Seminar Questions and Full Readings

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1995. Silencing the past: power and the production of history: Preface and Chapter 1: The Power in the Story

Harlow, Barbara. “Return to Haifa: ‘Opening the Borders’ in Palestinian Literature.” Social Text, no. 13/14 (1986): 3–23.

Recommended: Hawa, Kaleem. 2023. Palestinian Literary Criticism in Ghassan Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature. Journal of Palestine Studies, 52(3), 83–96.

Hanan Toukan, 2020. ‘Liberation or emancipation? Counter-hegemony, performance and public space in Lebanon’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(2), pp. 264–281.

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

Ghassan Kanafani Interview

Video about symbols of resistance: Palestine

Video about symbols of resistance: Egypt

Topic 4 Narratives Symbols 2024 PRME

Student Presentation Week 4

Topic 5: Transnational Resistance: Beyond the State

Topic 5: Seminar Questions and Full Readings

Abou-El-Fadl, Reem (2015), ‘Early Pan-Arabism in Egypt’s July Revolution: The Free Officers’ Political Formation and Early Policy-Making, 1946-54’. Nations and Nationalism, 21: 289-308.

George, Nathaniel. ‘Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental,’ in Guirguis, Laure, (ed.), The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

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

Reem Abou-El-Fadl, 'Beyond Pan-Arabism: Suez and Afro-Asian Solidarity in Abdel Nasser’s Egypt', Jadaliyya, October 2020.

Further reading: Reem Abou-El-Fadl, ‘Building Egypt’s Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo,’ in Su Lin Lewis and Carolien Stolte eds., The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism, Leiden University Press, 2022.

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

Further Reading: 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

Topic 5 Transnationalism PRME 2024

Topic 5 Student Presentation

Topic 6: Social Movements and Labour Mobilisation

Topic 6: Seminar Question and Full Readings

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

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

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

Further reading: 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

Further reading: 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

Topic 6 SMT Slides

Topic 7: Space and Everyday Resistance

Topic 7: Seminar Questions and Full Readings

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

Khayyat, Munira. 2023. ‘Resistant ecologies’, American Ethnologist, 50: 181–195.

Ryan, Caitlin. 2015. Everyday Resilience as Resistance: Palestinian Women Practicing Sumud, International Political Sociology, Volume 9, Issue 4, December, 299–315.

Eder, Mine and Özlem Oz (2017) ‘Spatialities of contentious politics: The case of Istanbul’s Besiktas neighborhood, çArsı football fandom and Gezi,’ Political Geography 61: 57-66.

Recommended: Ismail, Salwa (2013). Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective. Comparative Studies in Society and History 55(4), 865-894.

Topic 7 Everyday Resistance PRME

Student Presentation - Turkey and Lebanon

Topic 8: Civil Disobedience and Revolution

Topic 8: Seminar Questions and Full Readings

Charles Kurzman, 2004. The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran: Introduction pp. 1-11, Conclusion, pp. 163-172.

Fuad Jaber, 'The Arab Regimes and the Palestinian Revolution, 1967-71', Journal of Palestine Studies , Winter, 1973, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter, 1973), pp. 79- 101.

*Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, 'Can the (sub)altern resist? A dialogue between Foucault and Said', in Netton, Ian, ed. 2013. Orientalism Revisited : Art, Land and Voyage. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group.