G Youngs
Biographic Data
| ID | 8761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Youngs |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Youngs |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNGS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8681-0925 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remaking a Sovereign Landlord
Left-populist narratives of hydrocarbon extraction in the postcolonial world, including the twentieth-century Middle East, often construe it as a process whereby multinational fossil capital encloses and commodifies land held in common. Although such narratives may capture the experience of communities along certain oil and gas frontiers, they do not account for the social terrains and political trajectories of extractive land grabs in areas wher…
Archives after state unmaking
This article reflects on a recent research trip to Iraqi archives to raise questions about methodology in historical writing on Iraq. The article begins by describing the documentary sources available in Basra and Baghdad for writing provincial urban histories, and discusses the implications of accessing state archives in Iraq today, when the state that established them arguably no longer exists. It then interprets the sense of disjuncture that I…
Space and Materiality in Recent Studies of Labor and Class in the Middle East and Islamic World
This review article proposes new directions for the field of labor studies in the Middle East and Islamic world. It does so by examining a diverse array of recent works that are not framed as studies of labor and class per se, but that illustrate what this field might look like through their respective concerns with space and materiality. Taking such concerns together unites these otherwise disparate studies of class, oceanic connections, gender,…
Infrastructures of Empire and Sovereignty
This article traces the legal and political-economic disputes surrounding the construction of the Basra port in the era of World War I and the Mandate. Although the port was nominally an Iraqi institution, British colonial authorities vested it with a jurisdictional reach that actually extended beyond its own physical boundaries. It grew to encompass local municipalities, multinational corporations, and central state authorities on either side of…
Philosophical Psychopathology
In Memoriam Dr. Bunnett
Infrastructures of Empire and Sovereignty
This article traces the legal and political-economic disputes surrounding the construction of the Basra port in the era of World War I and the Mandate. Although the port was nominally an Iraqi institution, British colonial authorities vested it with a jurisdictional reach that actually extended beyond its own physical boundaries. It grew to encompass local municipalities, multinational corporations, and central state authorities on either side of…
In Memoriam Dr. Bunnett
Philosophical Psychopathology
Infrastructures of Empire and Sovereignty
This article traces the legal and political-economic disputes surrounding the construction of the Basra port in the era of World War I and the Mandate. Although the port was nominally an Iraqi institution, British colonial authorities vested it with a jurisdictional reach that actually extended beyond its own physical boundaries. It grew to encompass local municipalities, multinational corporations, and central state authorities on either side of…
Archives after state unmaking
This article reflects on a recent research trip to Iraqi archives to raise questions about methodology in historical writing on Iraq. The article begins by describing the documentary sources available in Basra and Baghdad for writing provincial urban histories, and discusses the implications of accessing state archives in Iraq today, when the state that established them arguably no longer exists. It then interprets the sense of disjuncture that I…
Space and Materiality in Recent Studies of Labor and Class in the Middle East and Islamic World
This review article proposes new directions for the field of labor studies in the Middle East and Islamic world. It does so by examining a diverse array of recent works that are not framed as studies of labor and class per se, but that illustrate what this field might look like through their respective concerns with space and materiality. Taking such concerns together unites these otherwise disparate studies of class, oceanic connections, gender,…
Remaking a Sovereign Landlord
Left-populist narratives of hydrocarbon extraction in the postcolonial world, including the twentieth-century Middle East, often construe it as a process whereby multinational fossil capital encloses and commodifies land held in common. Although such narratives may capture the experience of communities along certain oil and gas frontiers, they do not account for the social terrains and political trajectories of extractive land grabs in areas wher…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)