Ongoing Research Projects
Global Capitalism and Rurality: Agency, Commodification and the Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Middle Eastern Countryside, 1870-1945
This project, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (2024-2029, PI: Talha M. Çiçek) examines the impact of capitalization and commercialization on tribal agency and urban-rural / global-local relations in the Middle East. The project compares tribes of diverse origins, examining the ‘capitalization’ of their agriculture and the commercialization of their livestock. It adopts a translocal and global approach to reveal the connectedness of the diverse social entities to the wider world like the nomadic, semi-settled and settled tribes living in cultivable, desert, and mountainous ecologies.
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