Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia : moving from the periphery / / edited by Katlyn Quenzer, Maria Syed, Elisabeth Yarbakhsh

• Pubblicazione: Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Disciplina: 956.0072
• Soggetto topico: Study skills
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Study and teaching; Asia, Central Study and teaching
• Persona (resp. second.): QuenzerKatlyn <1988->; SyedMaria <1982->; YarbakhshElisabeth <1981->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : alternative frameworks: accounting for the overlooked / Katlyn Quenzer and Maria Syed -- Emerging trends and debates in Gulf studies / Matthew Gray -- Impending decline? a reassessment of Saudi power / Maria Syed -- Iranian nationalism from its (Afghan) margins / Elisabeth Yarbakhsh -- Between (ethno-)nationalism and political Islam : the Kurdish movement as a "third way" in Turkey / William Gourlay -- State formation and social conflict in Syria : causalities, unintended consequences, and analytical trajectories / Harout Akdedian -- Seen from a distance : political contexts for Middle Eastern contemporary art / Sam Bowker -- The Afghan threat to the security of the central Asian nations : myth or reality? / Azam Isabaev -- When East looks West to the Middle East / Ian Nelson.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book scholars specializing in the Middle East and Central Asia provide fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Authors draw on multiple disciplinary traditions and cover a broad geography, in order to challenge understandings and propose new forms of scholarly engagement.
• Titolo autorizzato: Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia
• ISBN: 1-4985-5843-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810715203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II