Colonial Legacies and Arab-Majority Regions

Ali Kassem is Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

• Introduction: Decolonization and Arab-Majority Region(s) - Ali KassemPart 1: The Colonial Condition: Structures and Concepts1. A Killing Machine: Exploitation, Extraction, and the Modern/Colonial State - Andrew Delatolla2. Race as a Category for Analysing Social Inequalities in Contemporary Morocco: Making a Case - Yassine Yassni and Youness Yassni3. Rethinking Israeli Development towards Palestinians of ’48: Economic Policies and Colonial Structures - Hebatalla Taha4. Thinking Localization, Refugee Leadership, and Humanitarian Funding from the Eastern Mediterranean: Selective Empowerment or Systemic Colonizing Exclusion? - Watfa Najdi5. Identifying Colonial Power in Contemporary SRHR in Egypt: Reflections from the Field - Samaa Elturkey and Dina HamoudaPart 2: Toward Decoloniality: Toward Decoloniality: Tensions, Resources, and Sites of Struggle6. On Reclaiming Fanon: From and For the Arab Maghreb - Mounir Saidani7. Knowledge Production in the Arab- Majority Region and Unlearning in the Field: Autoethnographic Reflections from Lebanon towards Alternative Research Politics - Ali Kassem8. Navigating Decoloniality in the Arab- Majority Region: Reflections from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies - Dina M. Taha9. (Re)Thinking Green Public Spaces in Beirut: Toward a Decolonial Political Ecology - Adam Cherkawi10. Modernity’s Ecological Crisis: Thinking Alternatives Through ’Irfan - Mohamad Baker ElharakePart 3: Concluding Discussions11. Thinking (alongside) the Arab Council for Social Sciences: Conversation with Seteney Shami and Moushira Elgeziri on Decoloniality, Knowledge, and Praxis, and/ in/ for the Arab Region - Ali Kassem, Seteney Shami, and Moushira Elgeziri12. Decoloniality after Gaza, or toward a Global Intifada - Nelson Maldonado-Torres

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