The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East

This book explores the extent to which race and racialisation offer us an explanatory framework to study the contemporary politics of identity in the Middle East today.

Autorentext

Burcu Ozcelik holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where she held the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and is an affiliated lecturer. Her research explores conflict, peacebuilding and identity in the contemporary politics of the Middle East, with a focus on Turkey, Iraq, Syria and transnational movements.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: confronting the legacy and contemporary iterations of racial politics in the Middle East 2. The Israel/ Palestine Racial Contract and the challenge of anti- Racism: a case study of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism 3. Palestine along the colour line: race, colonialism, and construction labour, 1918 1948 4. Anti- Muslim hate on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean: Lebanon, the Hijab, and modernity/ coloniality 5. Racial otherness, citizenship, and belonging: experiences of not looking like a Turk 6. Difference in difference: language, geography, and ethno- racial identity in contemporary Iran 7. The racial politics of smart urbanism: Dubai and Beirut as two sides of the same coin