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This book offers the first critical engagement with the political
economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging
conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of
capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how
critical political economy can illuminate both historical and
contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider
political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle
East. Leading scholars, representing several disciplines,
contribute both thematic and country-specific analyses. Their
writings critically examine major issues in political
economy-notably, the mutual constitution of states, markets, and
classes; the co-constitution of class, race, gender, and other
forms of identity; varying modes of capital accumulation and the
legal, political, and cultural forms of their regulation; relations
among local, national, and global forms of capital, class, and
culture; technopolitics; the role of war in the constitution of
states and classes; and practices and cultures of domination and
resistance. Visit politicaleconomyproject.org for additional media
and learning resources.
This book offers the first critical engagement with the political
economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging
conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of
capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how
critical political economy can illuminate both historical and
contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider
political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle
East. Leading scholars, representing several disciplines,
contribute both thematic and country-specific analyses. Their
writings critically examine major issues in political
economy-notably, the mutual constitution of states, markets, and
classes; the co-constitution of class, race, gender, and other
forms of identity; varying modes of capital accumulation and the
legal, political, and cultural forms of their regulation; relations
among local, national, and global forms of capital, class, and
culture; technopolitics; the role of war in the constitution of
states and classes; and practices and cultures of domination and
resistance. Visit politicaleconomyproject.org for additional media
and learning resources.
Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and
1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected
histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class
constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of
free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so
doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world
of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from the
limiting debates of Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Reading
Palestinian business periodicals, records, and correspondence,
Sherene Seikaly reveals how capital accumulation was central to the
conception of the ideal "social man." Here we meet a diverse set of
characters-the man of capital, the frugal wife, the law-abiding
Bedouin, the unemployed youth, and the abundant farmer-in new
spaces like the black market, cafes and cinemas, and the idyllic
Arab home. Seikaly also traces how British colonial institutions
and policies regulated wartime austerity regimes, mapping the
shortages of basic goods-such as the vegetable crisis of 1940-to
the broader material disparities among Palestinians and European
Jews. Ultimately, she shows that the economic is as central to
social management as the political, and that an exclusive focus on
national claims and conflicts hides the more complex changes of
social life in Palestine.
Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and
1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected
histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class
constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of
free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so
doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world
of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from the
limiting debates of Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Reading
Palestinian business periodicals, records, and correspondence,
Sherene Seikaly reveals how capital accumulation was central to the
conception of the ideal "social man." Here we meet a diverse set of
characters-the man of capital, the frugal wife, the law-abiding
Bedouin, the unemployed youth, and the abundant farmer-in new
spaces like the black market, cafes and cinemas, and the idyllic
Arab home. Seikaly also traces how British colonial institutions
and policies regulated wartime austerity regimes, mapping the
shortages of basic goods-such as the vegetable crisis of 1940-to
the broader material disparities among Palestinians and European
Jews. Ultimately, she shows that the economic is as central to
social management as the political, and that an exclusive focus on
national claims and conflicts hides the more complex changes of
social life in Palestine.
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