Middle East studies for the new millennium :  infrastructures of knowledge / 
edited by Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. 
 - xiii, 488 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The many crises of Middle East studies /  Disciplines and their boundaries.  Scientific knowledge, liberalism, and empire : American political science in the modern Middle East /  Middle East in sociology, sociology in the Middle East /  Oil on the waters? : Middle East studies and economics for the Middle East /  The interdisciplinary spatial turn and the discipline of geography in Middle East studies /  Middle East studies and the university.  The dual logics of international education in the global university : the case of Middle East studies at New York University /  Arabic language learning on US campuses after 9/11 : "needs" and challenges /  Trends in the production of knowledge about the Middle East within and across disciplines : a survey of PhD dissertations, 2000-2010 /  Islamic studies in US universities /  The politics of knowledge.  Area studies and the decade after 9/11 /  In the shadow of orientalism : the historiography of US-Arab relations /  The risk of knowing /  Middle East studies for the new millennium : infrastructures of knowledge /  Producing knowledge on world regions : overview of data collection and project methodology, 2000-present /  Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss --  Lisa Wedeen ;  Reşat Kasaba ;  Karen Pfeifer ;  Amy Mills and Timur Hammond --  Jonathan Z. Friedman and Cynthia Miller-Idriss ;  Elizabeth Anderson Worden and Jeremy M. Browne ;  Laura Bier ;  Charles Kurzman and Carl W. Ernst --  Seteney Shami and Marcial Godoy-Anativia ;  Ussama Makdisi ;  Irene Gendzier --  Lisa Anderson --  Jonathan Z. Friedman.  Introduction.  Part I.  Part II.  Part III.  Afterword.  Appendix. 
<br/><br/> Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is in flux, enmeshed in ongoing controversies about the relationship between knowledge and power, the role of the federal government at universities, and ways of knowing "other" cultures and places. Assembling a wide range of scholars immersed in the transformations of their disciplines and the study of this world region, Middle East Studies for the New Millennium explores the big-picture issues affecting the field, from the geopolitics of knowledge production to structural changes in the university to broader political and public contexts. Tracing the development of the field from the early days of the American university to the "Islamophobia" of the present day, this book explores Middle East studies as a discipline and, more generally, its impact on the social sciences and academia. Topics include how different disciplines engage with Middle East scholars, how American universities teach Middle East studies and related fields, and the relationship between scholarship and U.S.-Arab relations, among others. Middle East Studies for the New Millennium presents a comprehensive, authoritative overview of how this crucial field of academic inquiry came to be and where it is going next. -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781479827787 1479827789 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016018947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Study skills.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Study and teaching--United States.<br/>Middle East.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS61.9.U6  / .M52 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>956.0071