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SUMMARY:Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East - John Ch
 alcraft\, LSE
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CONTACT:Pierre Bocquillon
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nIn this seminar John Chalcraft introduces his new 
 book Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East\, a new hist
 ory of revolutions\, uprisings\, movements\, and diverse forms of protest 
 from Morocco to Iran from the eighteenth century to the present. The focus
  is on unruly collective action: the emergence of new\, fragile collective
  subjects and transgressive forms of contention. Writing against socioecon
 omic and discursive determinism alike\, the book is particularly concerned
  to analyse the active agencies shaping mobilizing projects: forms of mora
 l\, political and intellectual leadership\, trans-local appropriation\, in
 tellectual labour\, normative commitments\, and modes of organization\, st
 rategies and tactics. It challenges existing forms of Orientalism and tele
 ological modernism by foregrounding the ways in which movements are situat
 ed within\, and have shaped\, the rise\, establishment\, reform and attrit
 ion of political hegemony\n\nBio\n\nJohn Chalcraft is an Associate Profess
 or in the History and Politics of Empire/ Imperialism at the London School
  of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Previous posts include a Lectur
 eship at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Fellowship at Gonville
  and Caius College\, Cambridge. His research focuses on labour\, migration
  and contentious mobilisation in the Middle East. He is the author of The 
 Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: crafts and guilds in Egypt\, 
 1863-1914 (Albany: State University of New York Press\, 2004) and The Invi
 sible Cage: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon (Stanford University Press\,
  2009). His new book Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle E
 ast will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
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