A Global World
Relational regional terms like "Middle East," "Far East," "Wild West," implicitly take this continent as the center of the globe.
What is Europe?
Conceptualized by Edward Said, this term refers to a hegemonic regime of imagining and knowing "the East."
What is Orientalism?
Competed for by European colonial powers in the 19th century and nationalized by Egypt in the 20th century, this man-made water way used to be of extreme geopolitical value.
What is the Suez Canal?
Cantoni and Rignall argue that the case of this country's solar energy plan showcases how even progressive narratives can be entrenched in discourses that reproduce or justify the subpar conditions of marginalized populations.
What is Morocco?
This term meaning "between rivers" marks a Middle Eastern region that is home to mankind's earliest civilizations.
What is Mesopotamia?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as belief systems are branches of a family of religions jointly referred to by this term.
What are Abrahamic religions?
Various Middle Eastern countries are simultaneously exporting arms to these two warring countries and nervous about the potential consequences of supply line problems of a basic good that is overwhelmingly imported from the same two countries.
What are Ukraine and Russia?
This compound word signifies the strategic practice of designing or using technology to constitute, embody, or enact political goals.
What is technopolitics?
The Native American Genocide inadvertently caused the temporary mass reforestation of the Americas and was followed by this age of global cooling.
What is the Little Ice Age?
In his study, Jack Shaheen makes a case around how Hollywood vilifies this people by insistently circulating pervasive negative representations.
Who are Arabs?
Jordi Quero argues that this country will help the Middle East overcome the traditionally asymmetric relations of global power, not only as a result of directly targeting the region, but also by disrupting the elements of the global order.
What is China?
Mitchell forwards this concept as a way of thinking about the various global trajectories of democracy in relation to fossil fuels, specifically coal and oil.
What is "Carbon Democracy?"
"There is nothing new under the sun," says Eric Cline, in detailing the cosmopolitan, internationalized, and globalized world of this age, before the collapse of civilization.
What is the Bronze Age?
The ten digit numeral system commonly referred to as "Arabic numerals" could be more accurately called this.
What are "Hindu-Arabic Numerals"?
States can mobilize discourses of this historical trade route as a romanticized account of cooperation and dialogue while at the same time advancing their own diplomatic and expansionist agendas.
What is the Silk Road?
Mohavedi-Lankarani shows that the Iranian officials sought to undo the environmental harm of their industrialization policies with investing their trust in this new energy source, over-trusting the power of the technical fix it represented.
What is Natural Gas?
This scholar refers to the multireferential optimism that surrounds globalization as "the seduction of globalism." She writes: "Globalization is a crystal ball that promises to tell us of an almost-but-not-quite-there globality."
Who is Anna Tsing?
Turkish versions of this genre of TV has become both popular and contentious throughout the Middle East.
What is a soap opera?
In identifying multiple "sonic pathways" and their political work, Frishkopf talks about one specific kind of musical journey he calls "This-This Pathway," to designate the kind of cultural cross-pollination and artistic dialogue unmediated by the Global North.
What is the South-South Pathway?
The advertisement of the Moroccan Solar Plan as a job-creator has been criticized by scholars, who pointed out, after Mitchell, that the necessary workforce would lack this, therefore any real political power.
What is expertise?