Can I read Anthropology's politics: disciplining the Middle East,Deeb, Lara,Stanford University Press on EtoBox?

Anthropology's politics: disciplining the Middle East,Deeb, Lara,Stanford University Press by Lara Deeb, Jessica Winegar, Lara Deeb is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Anthropology's politics: disciplining the Middle East,Deeb, Lara,Stanford University Press about?

U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as "useless" or "biased" by right-wing forces. What happens when the two concerns meet, when such accusations target the researchers and research of a region so central to U.S. military interests? This book is the first academic study to shed critical light on the political and economic pressures that shape how U.S. scholars research and teach about the Middle East. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how Middle East politics and U.S. gender and race hierarchies affect scholars across their careers—from the first decisions to conduct research in the tumultuous region, to ongoing politicized pressures from colleagues, students, and outside groups, to hurdles in sharing expertise with the public. They detail how academia, even within anthropology, an assumed "liberal" discipline, is infused with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist obstruction of any criticism of the Israeli state. Anthropolo

Who reads Anthropology's politics: disciplining the Middle East,Deeb, Lara,Stanford University Press?

Author

Lara Deeb, Jessica Winegar, Lara Deeb

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804796842

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Sociology, Social Science

Rating

4.58 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13