Under the direction of Thierry Boissière & Yoann Morvan
Collection : " Humanities and social sciences "
Publication date : 5 May 2022
With the support of Scientific Interest Group Middle East and Muslim Worlds (CNRS - GIS-MOMM), the International Research Network "Circulation and Consumption in the Middle East" (CNRS - IRN CirCoMO) and theFrench Institute for the Near East (Ifpo UMIFRE 6, CNRS-MEAE, USR 3135)
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The book aims to contribute to an anthropology of capitalism by studying the various forms of circulation and consumption as they unfold in the Middle East, in the Turkish, Arab and Iranian worlds. The aim of the book is to understand how the changes linked to globalisation are reflected in everyday life in societies that are reputed to be conservative and sometimes antagonistic, in contexts marked by major political and economic upheavals, particularly since 2011.
The chapters in this collective work focus on metropolises (Aleppo, Istanbul, Kuwait, Qom, Tehran) that have been heavily impacted by the neoliberal trends that have swept the region over the last two decades. The authors draw on a range of human and social sciences (anthropology, geography, political science, sociology and economics, history), using a 'bottom-up' approach that takes into account the connectivity and ordinariness of globalisation. This book offers a fresh perspective on current dynamics in the Middle East.
Contents
An ordinary Middle East. Introduction (Thierry Boissière & Yoann Morvan)
Ottoman globalisation and its regimes of historicity. An urban approach (Nora Lafi)
Between Western and Eastern Asia. The extent and stability of Arab trade networks in China (Paul Anderson)
Religious cosmopolitanism. The city of Qom in the mirror of transnational circulations (Sepideh Parsapajouh)
Kuwait, a secondary metropolis. Between downgrading, extroversion and catching up (Claire Beaugrand)
Laleli (1997-2018). Restructuring and inertia of a global business scene in the heart of Istanbul (Jean-François Pérouse)
From one shopping centre to another. Women's cross-border mobility between Iran and Turkey (Mina Saïdi-Sharouz)
The Kurban Bayramı in Istanbul. Sacrifice between commercialisation and humanitarisation (Olivier Givre)
Drinking coffee in Tehran. The political economy of regional circulation and new modes of consumption in Iran (Amin Moghadam)
Afterword (Hamit Bozarslan)
