Middle East Studies for the New Millennium : : Infrastructures of Knowledge / / ed. by Seteney Shami, Cynthia Miller-Idriss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson Worden, Elizabeth,; Anderson, Lisa,; Bier, Laura,; Browne, Jeremy,; Ernst, Carl W.,; Friedman, Jonathan Z.,; Gendzier, Irene,; Godoy-Anativia, Marcial,; Hammond, Timur,; Kasaba, Reşat,; Kurzman, Charles,; Makdisi, Ussama,; Miller-Idriss, Cynthia,; Mills, Amy,; Pfeifer, Karen,; Shami, Seteney,; Wedeen, Lisa,
• HerausgeberIn: Miller-Idriss, Cynthia,; Shami, Seteney,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Social Science Research Council ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is in flux, enmeshed in ongoing controversies about the relationship between knowledge and power, the role of the federal government at universities, and ways of knowing “other” cultures and places. Assembling a wide range of scholars immersed in the transformations of their disciplines and the study of this world region, Middle East Studies for the New Millennium explores the big-picture issues affecting the field, from the geopolitics of knowledge production to structural changes in the university to broader political and public contexts. Tracing the development of the field from the early days of the American university to the “Islamophobia” of the present day, this book explores Middle East studies as a discipline and, more generally, its impact on the social sciences and academia. Topics include how different disciplines engage with Middle East scholars, how American universities teach Middle East studies and related fields, and the relationship between scholarship and U.S.-Arab relations, among others. Middle East Studies for the New Millennium presents a comprehensive, authoritative overview of how this crucial field of academic inquiry came to be and where it is going next.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Many Crises of Middle East Studies -- PART I. DISCIPLINES AND THEIR BOUNDARIES -- 1 Scientific Knowledge, Liberalism, and Empire: American Political Science in the Modern Middle East -- 2 Middle East in Sociology, Sociology in the Middle East -- 3 Oil on the Waters? Middle East Studies and Economics for the Middle East -- 4 The Interdisciplinary Spatial Turn and the Discipline of Geography in Middle East Studies -- PART II. MIDDLE EAST STUDIES AND THE UNIVERSITY -- 5 The Dual Logics of International Education in the Global University: The Case of Middle East Studies at New York University -- 6 Arabic Language Learning on US Campuses after 9/11: “Needs” and Challenges -- 7 Trends in the Production of Knowledge about the Middle East within and across Disciplines: A Survey of PhD Dissertations, 2000– 2010 -- 8 Islamic Studies in US Universities -- PART III. THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE -- 9 Area Studies and the Decade after 9/11 -- 10 In the Shadow of Orientalism: The Historiography of US- Arab Relations -- 11 The Risk of Knowing -- Afterword -- Appendix -- About the Contributors -- Index