Cicek Lab

National University of Ireland - University College Dublin

Ireland (IE0) · Ireland

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND RURALITY: AGENCY, COMMODIFICATION AND THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRYSIDE, 1870-1945

The Middle East is rarely associated with global capitalism. And yet, capitalist expansion had a substantial impact on its modern history. While previous works address issues such as ‘dependency’ and ‘coloniality’, state building, human-environmental interaction and connectivity, there is little recognition of the influence of global capitalism on the socio-ecological transformation of the rural Middle East. CAPITALEAST therefore 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…

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