Shifting Paradigms: Capitalism, Consumption & Development in Modern Middle East | Sherene Seikaly
In this episode of the afikra podcast, we're joined by historian Sherene Seikaly who talks to us about the historical forces that have shaped the modern Middle East and their implications for the present and future.
Sherene Seikaly is a historian of capitalism, consumption, and development in the modern Middle East. The most enduring concern of her scholarly research has been to explore how individuals, groups, and governments deploy both concepts and material practices to shape the economy, the body, the self, and the other. Her research on Palestinian businessmen; reformers of the domestic sphere; thinkers and scientists; and British colonial officers and institutions contributes to social, cultural, and intellectual history, political economy, cultural studies, and gender studies. Sherene’s new book project follows the trajectory of a peripatetic medical doctor to place Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession.
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