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Beyond exception : new interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula by Ahmed Kanna & Amélie le Renard & Neha Vora is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for this book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a "field" that is marked by such representations. The three focus on deconstructing the exceptionalist representations that circulate about the Arabian Peninsula. They analyze what exceptionalism does, how it is used by various people, and how it helps shape power relations in the societies they study. They propose ways that this analysis of exceptionalism provides tools for rethinking the concepts that have become commonplace, structuring narratives and analytical frameworks within fieldwork in and on the Arabian Peninsula. They ask: What would not only Middle East studies, but studies of postcolonial societies and global capitalism in other parts of the world look like if the Arabian Peninsula was central rather than peripheral or exceptional to ongoing sociohistorical processe

Who reads Beyond exception : new interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula?

Author

Ahmed Kanna & Amélie le Renard & Neha Vora

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501750304

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Social_sciences