Najib B Hourani
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 664243 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Najib B Hourani |
| PRENOMES | Najib B |
| SOBRENOME | Hourani |
| ASSINATURA | HOURANI N B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Seen but Unseen
Despite being legally classified as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) people in the United States have long been racialized as non-White, producing an invisibility/hypervisibility paradox. In other racially minoritized communities, this paradox has been linked to harmful effects across multiple social, political, and economic domains, including higher education. Integrating literature on the racialization of MENA Americans with schol…
Middle Eastern cities
This is home
In dangerous times
People or Profit? Two Post-Conflict Reconstructions in Beirut
Whether following disasters or extended periods of civil conflict and war, the development industry views reconstruction as a window of opportunity within which to affect otherwise deeply unpopular reforms in the name of market-driven reconstruction and improvement. Critics, who emphasize the pain that neoliberal reconstruction entails, even as it often fails, term such projects “disaster capitalism.” This article examines the institutional prior…
Capitalists in Conflict
This article argues, in contrast to much of the extant literature, that the political economy of Lebanon can explain the roots and dynamics of that country's 1975–1990 civil war. This reinterpretation examines the tensions and conflicts that arose within the Lebanese financial sector—the commanding heights of the Lebanese political economy—with the onset of petrodollar-driven financial globalization. Through a multi-sited approach, the paper trac…
Post-conflict reconstruction and citizenship agendas
How does post-conflict reconstruction embody citizenship agendas? By emphasizing the intersections between urban planning, architecture and political community in Hizballah's reconstruction discourse following the 2006 war, this article explores the articulation of such agendas in the historical production of urban space. The first section explores the denial of urban space and membership in the political community to Lebanon's Shi'a in the recon…
Neoliberal Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
Abdali Urban Regeneration Project, Collage. Courtesy of Abdali Psc. NotesAccessible overviews can be found in Lynch (Citation) and Gelvin (Citation). For more in-depth and systematic treatments of Arab regimes on the eve of the Arab uprisings see Owen (Citation). An excellent series of analyses written as events unfolded has been collected in Haddad, Bsheer, and Abu Rish (Citation)For coverage in English, see Al-Ahram Online and the Jordan Times …
Urbanism and Neoliberal Order
This article explores the self-representation of market urbanism as an economic project. It does so through an historically situated study of the redevelopment of the Abdali district of Amman. Drawing upon recent fieldwork, press reports, and interviews with municipal officials, urban planners, and architects, the article questions the understanding of property markets and the production of space under contemporary capitalism as rooted in the eco…
Arab Cities in the Neoliberal Moment
Amman Suq, winter 2009. Photo by Najib Hourani. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNajib B. HouraniNajib B. Hourani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Having received his PhD in Politics (New York University, 2005), Hourani's research today investigates the dark underside of capitalist globalization in Middle Eastern cities. He is currently working on…
Lebanon
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Group of like-Minded Lads in Heaven”
While the Arab Gulf’s imperial geography has been recognized at the level of geopolitics, little if any work has connected empire to the daily, human geographies of the region. Scholarship on the intersection between urbanism and empire has tended to emphasize issues of surveillance and governance, assuming, whether intentionally or not, an imperial, “birds-eye” point of view. Such an approach both leaves much interesting material out of the anal…
Transnational Pathways and Politico-economic Power
Celebrants of neo-liberal globalisation and their critics ascribe to the rationality of finance capital enormous power. It opens new territories, produces new cultural forms and creates a hierarchy of cities and the spaces within them. How might this image change when viewed from spaces allegedly excluded from capitalist globalisation? For many, Lebanon during its 1975–1990 civil war was such a place. The international financial institutions and …
The Militiaman Icon
The Militiaman IconCinema, Memory, and the Lebanese Civil Wars Najib Hourani (bio) Much has been made of the existence of amnesia amongst the Lebanese regarding the 1975–1990 civil wars, and the threat this forgetting poses to the reconstitution of the nation in the post-war era (Khalaf 2006; Young 2000; Hogbaulle 2005). Yet as Barak (2007), notes, the amnesia thesis, which holds that the Lebanese people hold a deep desire to forget “the scars an…
Lebanon
Transnational Pathways and Politico-economic Power
Celebrants of neo-liberal globalisation and their critics ascribe to the rationality of finance capital enormous power. It opens new territories, produces new cultural forms and creates a hierarchy of cities and the spaces within them. How might this image change when viewed from spaces allegedly excluded from capitalist globalisation? For many, Lebanon during its 1975–1990 civil war was such a place. The international financial institutions and …
Urbanism and Neoliberal Order
This article explores the self-representation of market urbanism as an economic project. It does so through an historically situated study of the redevelopment of the Abdali district of Amman. Drawing upon recent fieldwork, press reports, and interviews with municipal officials, urban planners, and architects, the article questions the understanding of property markets and the production of space under contemporary capitalism as rooted in the eco…
Capitalists in Conflict
This article argues, in contrast to much of the extant literature, that the political economy of Lebanon can explain the roots and dynamics of that country's 1975–1990 civil war. This reinterpretation examines the tensions and conflicts that arose within the Lebanese financial sector—the commanding heights of the Lebanese political economy—with the onset of petrodollar-driven financial globalization. Through a multi-sited approach, the paper trac…
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Group of like-Minded Lads in Heaven”
While the Arab Gulf’s imperial geography has been recognized at the level of geopolitics, little if any work has connected empire to the daily, human geographies of the region. Scholarship on the intersection between urbanism and empire has tended to emphasize issues of surveillance and governance, assuming, whether intentionally or not, an imperial, “birds-eye” point of view. Such an approach both leaves much interesting material out of the anal…
Neoliberal Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
Abdali Urban Regeneration Project, Collage. Courtesy of Abdali Psc. NotesAccessible overviews can be found in Lynch (Citation) and Gelvin (Citation). For more in-depth and systematic treatments of Arab regimes on the eve of the Arab uprisings see Owen (Citation). An excellent series of analyses written as events unfolded has been collected in Haddad, Bsheer, and Abu Rish (Citation)For coverage in English, see Al-Ahram Online and the Jordan Times …
The Militiaman Icon
The Militiaman IconCinema, Memory, and the Lebanese Civil Wars Najib Hourani (bio) Much has been made of the existence of amnesia amongst the Lebanese regarding the 1975–1990 civil wars, and the threat this forgetting poses to the reconstitution of the nation in the post-war era (Khalaf 2006; Young 2000; Hogbaulle 2005). Yet as Barak (2007), notes, the amnesia thesis, which holds that the Lebanese people hold a deep desire to forget “the scars an…
Arab Cities in the Neoliberal Moment
Amman Suq, winter 2009. Photo by Najib Hourani. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNajib B. HouraniNajib B. Hourani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Having received his PhD in Politics (New York University, 2005), Hourani's research today investigates the dark underside of capitalist globalization in Middle Eastern cities. He is currently working on…
Post-conflict reconstruction and citizenship agendas
How does post-conflict reconstruction embody citizenship agendas? By emphasizing the intersections between urban planning, architecture and political community in Hizballah's reconstruction discourse following the 2006 war, this article explores the articulation of such agendas in the historical production of urban space. The first section explores the denial of urban space and membership in the political community to Lebanon's Shi'a in the recon…
The Militiaman Icon
The Militiaman IconCinema, Memory, and the Lebanese Civil Wars Najib Hourani (bio) Much has been made of the existence of amnesia amongst the Lebanese regarding the 1975–1990 civil wars, and the threat this forgetting poses to the reconstitution of the nation in the post-war era (Khalaf 2006; Young 2000; Hogbaulle 2005). Yet as Barak (2007), notes, the amnesia thesis, which holds that the Lebanese people hold a deep desire to forget “the scars an…
Transnational Pathways and Politico-economic Power
Celebrants of neo-liberal globalisation and their critics ascribe to the rationality of finance capital enormous power. It opens new territories, produces new cultural forms and creates a hierarchy of cities and the spaces within them. How might this image change when viewed from spaces allegedly excluded from capitalist globalisation? For many, Lebanon during its 1975–1990 civil war was such a place. The international financial institutions and …
Lebanon
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Group of like-Minded Lads in Heaven”
While the Arab Gulf’s imperial geography has been recognized at the level of geopolitics, little if any work has connected empire to the daily, human geographies of the region. Scholarship on the intersection between urbanism and empire has tended to emphasize issues of surveillance and governance, assuming, whether intentionally or not, an imperial, “birds-eye” point of view. Such an approach both leaves much interesting material out of the anal…
Neoliberal Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
Abdali Urban Regeneration Project, Collage. Courtesy of Abdali Psc. NotesAccessible overviews can be found in Lynch (Citation) and Gelvin (Citation). For more in-depth and systematic treatments of Arab regimes on the eve of the Arab uprisings see Owen (Citation). An excellent series of analyses written as events unfolded has been collected in Haddad, Bsheer, and Abu Rish (Citation)For coverage in English, see Al-Ahram Online and the Jordan Times …
Urbanism and Neoliberal Order
This article explores the self-representation of market urbanism as an economic project. It does so through an historically situated study of the redevelopment of the Abdali district of Amman. Drawing upon recent fieldwork, press reports, and interviews with municipal officials, urban planners, and architects, the article questions the understanding of property markets and the production of space under contemporary capitalism as rooted in the eco…
Arab Cities in the Neoliberal Moment
Amman Suq, winter 2009. Photo by Najib Hourani. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNajib B. HouraniNajib B. Hourani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Having received his PhD in Politics (New York University, 2005), Hourani's research today investigates the dark underside of capitalist globalization in Middle Eastern cities. He is currently working on…
People or Profit? Two Post-Conflict Reconstructions in Beirut
Whether following disasters or extended periods of civil conflict and war, the development industry views reconstruction as a window of opportunity within which to affect otherwise deeply unpopular reforms in the name of market-driven reconstruction and improvement. Critics, who emphasize the pain that neoliberal reconstruction entails, even as it often fails, term such projects “disaster capitalism.” This article examines the institutional prior…
Capitalists in Conflict
This article argues, in contrast to much of the extant literature, that the political economy of Lebanon can explain the roots and dynamics of that country's 1975–1990 civil war. This reinterpretation examines the tensions and conflicts that arose within the Lebanese financial sector—the commanding heights of the Lebanese political economy—with the onset of petrodollar-driven financial globalization. Through a multi-sited approach, the paper trac…
Post-conflict reconstruction and citizenship agendas
How does post-conflict reconstruction embody citizenship agendas? By emphasizing the intersections between urban planning, architecture and political community in Hizballah's reconstruction discourse following the 2006 war, this article explores the articulation of such agendas in the historical production of urban space. The first section explores the denial of urban space and membership in the political community to Lebanon's Shi'a in the recon…
In dangerous times
Middle Eastern cities
This is home
Seen but Unseen
Despite being legally classified as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) people in the United States have long been racialized as non-White, producing an invisibility/hypervisibility paradox. In other racially minoritized communities, this paradox has been linked to harmful effects across multiple social, political, and economic domains, including higher education. Integrating literature on the racialization of MENA Americans with schol…
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