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The politics of mass violence in the Middle East
- Title
- The politics of mass violence in the Middle East / Laura Robson.
- Author
- Robson, Laura
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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- Description
- 230 pages : map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states. 0The region's emergence as a 'zone of violence', characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity, is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century's most intractable problems. In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence - encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization - to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.
- Series Statement
- Zones of violence
- Uniform Title
- Zones of violence.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-349
- ISBN
- 019882503X
- 9780198825036
- OCLC
- 1128889279
- Author
- Robson, Laura, author.
- Title
- The politics of mass violence in the Middle East / Laura Robson.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textcartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Zones of violenceZones of violence.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-349