MERIP as a Model for Politically Committed Knowledge Production in Middle East Studies

IF 0.2 Q3 AREA STUDIES

Review of Middle East Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.1017/rms.2022.3

Waleed Hazbun

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Abstract While MERIP's offered incisive critiques of the power relations that defined the existing field of Middle East studies, this essay explores how it also represents an alternative model of knowledge production, built outside academia, that has helped reshape scholarship and teaching about the Middle East and North Africa and more broadly about the US relationship to the region. The essay also introduces the other contributions in this forum including an edited transcript of 2020 MESA roundtable on the impact of MERIP on Middle East studies, a historical account that traces the origins of the MERIP collective and three essays exploring the evolution of MERIP's approach addressing, in turn, contributions and innovations within the areas of critical political economy, gender studies, and the politics of culture. Finally, drawing on these contributions as well as Middle East Report issue no. 300 that reviews how MERIP covered various topics, the essay concludes by highlighting the continuing value of MERIP as a teaching resource that allows students and others to understand the transformations across the region over the past half century as well as shifting approaches and theories that have come to help define Middle East studies as an academic field.

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MERIP作为中东研究中政治承诺知识生产的模型

虽然MERIP对定义现有中东研究领域的权力关系提出了尖锐的批评，但本文探讨了它如何也代表了一种知识生产的替代模式，这种模式建立在学术界之外，有助于重塑关于中东和北非的学术和教学，更广泛地说，是关于美国与该地区的关系。本文还介绍了本论坛的其他贡献，包括关于MERIP对中东研究影响的2020年MESA圆桌会议的编辑记录，追溯MERIP集体起源的历史记录，以及探索MERIP方法演变的三篇文章，反过来，在批判政治经济学、性别研究和文化政治领域的贡献和创新。最后，根据这些贡献以及《中东报告》第2号。这篇文章总结了MERIP作为一种教学资源的持续价值，它使学生和其他人能够理解过去半个世纪中东地区的变化，以及帮助将中东研究定义为一个学术领域的方法和理论的转变。

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