Format:
1 Online-Ressource (162 Seiten)
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1 b&w halftone
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781501750328
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9781501750311
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Ethnography from the Exceptional to the Everyday -- 1. Space, Mobility, and Shifting Identities in the Constitution of the “Field” -- 2. How Western Residents in Riyadh and Dubai Produce and Challenge Exceptionalism -- 3. Anthropology and the Educational Encounter: Archival Logics and Gendered “Backlash” in Qatar’s Education City -- 4. Class Struggle and De-exceptionalizing the Gulf -- Conclusion: Centering the Arabian Peninsula, Decolonizing the Academy -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for this book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a "field" that is marked by such representations. The three focus on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. They analyze what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies they study. They propose ways that this analysis of exceptionalism provides tools for rethinking the concepts that have become commonplace, structuring narratives and analytical frameworks within fieldwork in and on the Arabian Peninsula. They ask: What would not only Middle East studies, but studies of postcolonial societies and global capitalism in other parts of the world look like if the Arabian Peninsula was central rather than peripheral or exceptional to ongoing sociohistorical processes and representational practices? The authors explore how the exceptionalizing discourses that permeate Arabian Peninsula studies spring from colonialist discourses still operative in anthropology and sociology more generally, and suggest that de-exceptionalizing the region within their disciplines can offer opportunities for decolonized knowledge production
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501750304
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501750298
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kanna, Ahmed, 1975 - Beyond exception Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781501750298
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501750304
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
DOI:
10.1515/9781501750328
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