Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East by Keshavarzian, Arang

Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory...
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Author: Arang Keshavarzian
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Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East by Keshavarzian, Arang

Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East

$79.28

Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East

$79.28
Author: Arang Keshavarzian
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf reveals how capitalism, empire-building, geopolitics, and urbanism have each shaped understandings of the region over the last two centuries. Here, the Gulf comes into view as a created space, encompassing dynamic social relations and competing interests.

Arang Keshavarzian writes a new history of the region that places Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula together within global processes. He connects moments more often treated as ruptures--the discovery of oil, the Iranian Revolution, the rise and decline of British empire, the emergence of American power--and crafts a narrative populated by a diverse range of people--migrants and ruling families, pearl-divers and star architects, striking taxi drivers and dethroned rulers, protectors of British India and stewards of globalized American universities. Tacking across geographic scales, Keshavarzian reveals how the Gulf has been globalized through transnational relations, regionalized as a geopolitical category, and cleaved along national divisions and social inequalities.

When understood as a process, not an object, the Persian Gulf reveals much about how regions and the world have been made in modern times. Making Space for the Gulf offers a fresh understanding of this globally consequential place.



Author: Arang Keshavarzian
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781503638877


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2024

About the Author
Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Bazaar and State in Iran: Politics of the Tehran Marketplace (2007) and coeditor of Global 1979: Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution (2021).

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