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New Directions Political Economy

NEW DIRECTIONS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY

19-21 February 2016
Stanford Humanities Center &History Corner
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More Political Economy Project Workshops
  • Development and the Uprisings
  • ​​The Arab Uprisings: Class Formation and Class Dynamics
  • The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization
  • Tunisia: Labor and Development in Times of Transition
  • ​​​Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey
  • Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research

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

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  • FAMA
  • Researchers
  • Projects
    • MESPI
    • Knowledge Production Project >
      • ME-KP
    • Political Economy Project >
      • Development and the Uprisings
      • Class Formations and Dynamics
      • The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization
      • Tunisia: A Political Economy in Transition
      • Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey
      • Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
      • 2016 Political Economy Institute
    • The Lebanon Project >
      • Research Working Group: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958 >
        • Inaugural Workshop: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958
      • Lebanon Dissertation Summer Institute
    • The Palestine Project >
      • Gaza in Context Film
      • Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice in Palestine
      • Audio Content
    • The Civil Society Project >
      • Exploring an Agenda on Active Citizenship
      • NGOs in the Arab World Post-Arab Uprisings
      • Academia & Social Justice
    • Middle East Media Project >
      • Journalism Against the Grain
    • The Egypt Project >
      • Towards a Cultural Cartography
      • After Tahrir
      • Audio Content
    • Refugees and Migrants Project >
      • Refugees in Lebanon
      • Study Week Beirut
    • Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarities Project
  • Initiatives
    • Political Islam, ISIS, and Sectarianism >
      • Understanding the ISIS Phenomenon
      • Sectarianism, Identity and Conflict in Islamic Contexts
    • SAND
    • MED RESET
  • Events
    • Mailing List
    • 2015 Events
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