Arang Keshavarzian: Making Space for the Gulf

Cover: 9781503638877 | Making Space for the Gulf | Arang Keshavarzian | Taschenbuch | 2024

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"The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space-an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf reveals how capitalism, empire-building, geopolitics, and urbanism have each shaped understandings of the region over the last two centuries. Here, the Gulf comes into view as a created space, encompassing dynamic social relations and competing interests. Arang Keshavarzian writes a new history of the region that places Iran, Iraq, and the Arab Peninsula together within global processes. He connects moments more often treated as ruptures-the discovery of oil, the Iranian Revolution, the rise and decline of British empire, the emergence of American power-and crafts a narrative populated by a diverse range of people-migrants and ruling families, pearl-divers and star architects, striking taxi drivers and dethroned rulers, protectors of British India and stewards of globalized American universities. Tacking across geographic scales, Keshavarzian reveals how the Gulf has been globalized through transnational relations, regionalized as a geopolitical category, and cleaved along national divisions and social inequalities. When understood as a process, not an object, the Persian Gulf reveals much about how regions and the world have been made in modern times. Making Space for the Gulf offers a fresh understanding of this globally consequential place"--

Über den Autor

Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Bazaar and State in Iran: Politics of the Tehran Marketplace (2007) and coeditor of Global 1979: Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution (2021).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction: Region-Making across Scale and Time

1. Boundless Regionalism

2. Imperial Enclosure

3. Divided Sovereignties

4. Globalization's Seams

5. Urbanism Rebounded

Conclusion: Spatial Frictions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781503638877
ISBN-10:	1503638871
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Keshavarzian, Arang
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	224 x 150 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Arang Keshavarzian
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.04.2024
Gewicht:	0,458 kg