Space and Materiality in Recent Studies of Labor and Class in the Middle East and Islamic World

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ID21454774
AuthorsZachary Davis Cuyler (0000-0002-7764-4010, New York University, corresponding author), G Youngs (0000-0001-8681-0925, New York University), Gabriel Young
Year2022
Volume101
Pages184-200
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0147547921000168
OpenAlexW4210826010
LanguageEN
References cited5

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, urban transformation, and the environment. We have organized this essay around the themes of space and materiality because of the utility that they hold for the study of labor and class in the Middle East and Islamic world. They enable us to attend to the basic aims of older scholarship on labor and political economy while also internalizing the critiques of that tradition mounted by scholars of race, gender, and colonialism. We moreover suggest that the theoretical developments outlined here can inform scholarship on labor and class across regional divides

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Islam · Materiality (auditing) · Middle class · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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