Settler Colonialism, Legacies of Indenture & Political Economy
Another busy month at Pluto Journals with a rich mix of newly published articles to share with you. We are also delighted to announce that Pluto Journals is now a Jisc approved supplier, which means that UK members can support our collection of 20 Diamond Open Access Social Science Journal or just our Islamic Journals Collection which includes Arab Studies Quarterly, Islamophobia Studies Journal, ReOrient, Bethlehem University Journal, and Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies.
In the latest issue of Arab Studies Quarterly Volume 46 Issue 1, the Editor Ibrahim G. Aoudé, writes an essay titled “The Centrality of West Asia to Global Politics” based on the keynote address given at the VIII Symposium held at Gelişim University, Istanbul, Turkey October 24–26, 2023.
Sajjad Gheytasi’s “Echoes of Exile: Rememory and Resistance in Salt Houses” studies Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses, and explores the role of elders in keeping Palestinian culture alive and how this can be used as a weapon to resist the occupier. Samir Abed Rabbo’s “Herzl’s Zionism and Settler Colonialism in Palestine” interrogates Herzl’s colonial thinking and the thinking of his successors that ultimately led to the establishment of the settler colonial entity in Palestine in 1948.
In “Sexuality in Emerging Translated Modern Arabic Literature: Between Mimicking and Dismantling the Eurocentric Narrative in The Corpse Washer” Ibrahim Abu Elrob employs postcolonialism to discuss Antoon’s “translation-related ‘intervention’” to produce a “hybrid discourse” to counter the Orientalist (Anglo-American) discourse of Arab sexuality.
In the latest issue of World Review of Political Economy Volume 14 Issue 4, Jeff Noonan analyses Picketty’s arguments on the destructive effects of income and wealth inequality In Exploitation, Capitalist Crisis, and Democratic Planning: Problems of Piketty’s Socialism. Considering the 2008 financial crisis and its re-evaluation of the cyclical development of capitalism Tamás T. Csontos focuses on the “temporal phases of capitalism” in his article From Social Structures to Techno-Economic Paradigms: Comparison of Four Phases of Capitalism Theories.
In The Opium Wars and Capital Accumulation: Comments on Karl Marx’s Perspectives on the Qing and England Recorded in The New York Herald Tribune Hongren Xie fleshes out Marx’s thinking about imperialism and the relationship between wars and capital accumulation from nearly 500 of Marx’s 1890 editorials for The New York Herald Tribune.
Matteo Capasso draws on Fidel Castro’s concept of the “Battle of Ideas” and argues that sanctions should be studied as a form of US-led imperialist warfare over the Global South in Theorising Sanctions as Warfare: Insights from the US-Led Aggression on Libya. Ahmet Zaifer’s article Turkish Experience with Divestiture between 2010 and 2019: A Comparative Historical Evaluation employs a Marxian analytical framework to explain divestitures in Turkey in the 2010’s Middle East.
In the latest issue of Arab Studies Quarterly Volume 46 Issue 1, the Editor Ibrahim G. Aoudé, writes an essay titled “The Centrality of West Asia to Global Politics” based on the keynote address given at the VIII Symposium held at Gelişim University, Istanbul, Turkey October 24–26, 2023.
Sajjad Gheytasi’s “Echoes of Exile: Rememory and Resistance in Salt Houses” studies Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses, and explores the role of elders in keeping Palestinian culture alive and how this can be used as a weapon to resist the occupier. Samir Abed Rabbo’s “Herzl’s Zionism and Settler Colonialism in Palestine” interrogates Herzl’s colonial thinking and the thinking of his successors that ultimately led to the establishment of the settler colonial entity in Palestine in 1948.
In “Sexuality in Emerging Translated Modern Arabic Literature: Between Mimicking and Dismantling the Eurocentric Narrative in The Corpse Washer” Ibrahim Abu Elrob employs postcolonialism to discuss Antoon’s “translation-related ‘intervention’” to produce a “hybrid discourse” to counter the Orientalist (Anglo-American) discourse of Arab sexuality.
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