NEW DIRECTIONS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY

19-21 February 2016
Stanford Humanities Center &History Corner
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Highlights

Organizers
Joel Beinin
Bassam Haddad

Papers and Presentations
Ahmad Shokr
"Introductions to New Directions in Political Economy"

Toby Jones
"Capitalism and Agrarian Development"

Max Ajl
"U.S. Food Aid and the Green Revolution"

Mélisande Genat
"Iraqi Kurdish Collective Towns During the Seventies in the Context of Socialist ''Villagization''"

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
A Refugee Country: Land, Commerce, and Development of the Amman Region, 1878-1914

Discussion of Readings
Animators: Firat Bozçali and Meade Klingensmith
Sven Beckert,Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Animators: Paul Amar and Max Ajl
James Ferguson, Give a Man a Fish, Ch. 1.
Jason W. Moore, "Transcending the Metabolic Rift: A Theory of Crises in the Capitalist World-Ecology" Journal of Peasant Studie.
Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, Ch. 2-4

Position Papers
Respondents: Zachary Lockman and Joel Beinin

Presentations
Hesham Sallam, Sherene Seikaly, Adam Hanieh
How to Understand the Arab Spring?

Adam Hanieh
Geographies of Oil and Power

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
Oil, the Baath, and the Limits of American Corporatism in Iraq, 1963-1968

Joel Beinin, Toby Jones
Atlas of Oil Project

Caroline Abadeer, Scott Williamson. Alexandra Domike Blackman
Mapping Cairo Project

Ahmad Shokr, Aaron Jakes
Empire Without Value? Respinning Histories of Capitalism

Julia Elyachar
What's Wrong with "Political Economy of the Middle East"

Ziad Abu Rish, Charles Anderson
Palestine and Global Capitalism

Kristen Alff
Europe as Object: Levantine Joint-Stock Companies, Land, Law, and Global Capital

Basma Fahoum
Arab Palestinian Tobacco Cultivation under the British Rule, 1920-1948