Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Hardcover by Salvatore, ...

by Sari Hanafi, Armando Salvatore, Kieko Obuse

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Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Hardcover by Salvatore, Armando (EDT); Hanafi, Sari (EDT); Obuse, Kieko (EDT), ISBN 0190087471, ISBN-13 9780190087470, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores how within the global community, the Middle East has become a terrain of heightened concern within the post-Cold War context, where the promising rise of civic (and often religiously motivated) sociopolitical movements in the 1980s and 1990s has been slowly overwhelmed by the affirmation of jihadist networks, authoritarian states, and complex supranational security apparatuses. This foundational volume engages in a critical examination of the field, starting with a historical sociology of the making of the idea itself of the Middle East and linking it with the legacy of colonialism and the evolving dynamics of global power. In repurposing the sociology of the Middle East within a growing interdisciplinary multifield, the Handbook develops the critical argument that the exploration of social dynamics in the Middle East cannot be disjoined from the analysis of culture and politic

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780190087470
• Condition: Fine

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