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Shafiee, Katayoun (2019) Science and technology studies, modern Middle East History, and the infrastructural turn. History Compass, 17 (12). e12598. doi:10.1111/hic3.12598 ISSN 1478-0542.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12598
Abstract
This article critically surveys the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and modern Middle East History. Scholarship in STS has helped transform the writing of history by developing new ways of thinking about what the political and the technical are and how they work. Historians of the modern Middle East have expanded on these microstudies to think about the larger, more extended effects beyond the laboratory, and to reconfigure the role of nature and technology in the reassembly of questions of agency, knowledge production, governance, political community and nation, and possibilities for democracy in the region. The discussion tracks the turn to the material or technical in modern Middle East History by placing the nonhuman at the center of the analysis of power. Making extensive use of industry and company archives, recent scholarship has drawn on STS to introduce new puzzles to the field of Middle East History concerning the political economy of the countryside, large‐scale infrastructures, energy and democracy, and the political agency of the multinational corporation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia Q Science > Q Science (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Science -- Study and teaching -- Middle East, Technology -- Study and teaching -- Middle East, Middle East -- History , Technology -- Social aspects -- Middle East | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | History Compass | ||||||||
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1478-0542 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||||
Article Number: | e12598 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/hic3.12598 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Shafiee, K. Science and Technology Studies (STS), modern Middle East History, and the infrastructural turn. History Compass. 2019;e12598. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12598 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 September 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 November 2021 | ||||||||
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