Policing Across Borders: A Geography of United States National Securitization
Dr. Lisa Bhungalia
Tuesday – April 14, 2015
Thompson Library Room 165
Dr. Lisa Bhungalia is a postdoctoral fellow in O
SU’s Department of Geography. For the April conversation at Thompson Library, Dr. Bhungalia will discuss her current research on the intersection of liberal war, national securitization, and transnational linkages and encounters between the United States and the North Africa/Middle East region. Based on research conducted in Israel/Palestine, her talk examines transnational articulations of U.S. national securitization tracing in particular how U.S. counterterrorism laws and polices shape American civilian aid programs to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Then attending to domestic dimensions of the “war on terror,” she explores how American counterterrorism strategies are being transmitted, adapted, and refined within the United States. Attention is afforded in particular to recent court cases involving prosecutions of Arab and Muslim charities under U.S. material support legislation and to the broader impacts of these prosecutions on political organizing in the United States and charitable giving abroad.
Counterinsurgency Interventions in Palestinian and Arab American Communities:
Bachmann, J., C. Bell and Holmqvist, C. (Eds.). (2014). War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention. London: Routledge.
Davis, R. (2010). Culture as a Weapon. Middle East Report 255(Summer): 8-13.
Dillon, M. and Neal, A. W. (Eds.). (2008). Foucault on Politics, Security and War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Graham, S. (2006). “Homeland” Insecurities? Katrina and the politics of “security” in metropolitan America. Space and Culture 9(1): 63-67.
—. (2012). Foucault’s Boomerang: The new military urbanism. Development Dialogue 58 (April): 37-48.
Gregory, D. (2008). ‘The Rush to the Intimate’: Counterinsurgency and the cultural turn. Radical Philosophy 150(July/August): 8-23.
Khalili, L. (2010). The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies. International Journal of Middle East Studies 42(03): 413-433.
—. (2012). Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Shamas, D. and Arastu, N. (2013). Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and its Impact on Muslims. The Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility Project, CUNY School of Law.
Weizman, E. (2011). The Least of all Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza. New York: Verso.
“Counterinsurgency Interventions in Palestinian and Arab American Communities Bibliography” Compiled by Dr. Lisa Bhungalia, The Ohio State University Department of Geography SBS Postdoctoral Fellow.
Selected Works in Contemporary Arab American Studies
Reference Sources:
Ameri, A., Ramey, D., &and The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services. (2000). Arab American Encyclopedia. Detroit: U X L.
Oweis, F. (2008). Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
Cesari, J. (2007). Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
Contemporary Arab American Studies:
Abraham, N., and Shryock, A. (2000). Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Abraham, N., Howell, S., and Shryock, A. (2011). Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Abdulhadi, R., Alsultany, E., and Naber, N. C. (2011). Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Benson, K., Kayal, P. M., and The Museum of the City of New York. (2002). A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City. New York: Museum of the City of New York.
Fadda-Conrey, C. (2014). Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging.
Haddad, Y. Y. (2011). Becoming American?: The Forging of Arab and Muslim Identity in Pluralist America. Waco, TX Baylor University Press.
Hassan, W. S. (2011). Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab. American and Arab British Literature. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jamal, A., and Naber, N. C. (2008). Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Kadi, J. (1994). Food for our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists. Boston: South End Press.
Kayyali, R. A. (2006). The Arab Americans. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
Naber, N. C. (2012). Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York: New York University Press.
Orfalea, G. (2006). The Arab Americans: A History. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press.
Salaita, S. (2011). Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
—. Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes from and What it Means for Politics Today. London: Pluto Press.
Shakir, E. (1997). Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States. Westport, CN: Praeger.
Smith, J. I. (2009). Islam in America, Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press.
Suleiman, M. W. (1988). The Arabs in the Mind of America. Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books.
— (1999). Arabs in America: Building a New Future. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Selected Works of Fiction:
Abu-Jaber, D. (1993). Arabian Jazz. New York: Harcourt Brace.
Bayoumi, M. (2009). How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America. New York: Penguin Books.
Geha, J. (2012). Lebanese Blonde: A Novel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Jarrar, R. (2008). A Map of Home: A Novel. New York: Other Press.
Kahf, M. (2007). The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel. New York: Public Affairs.
— (2003). E-mails from Scheherazad. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Kajahji, I., and Youssef, N. (2010). The American Granddaughter. Doha: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation.
Kaldas, P., Mattawa and K., Darraj, S. M. (2009). Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
In Najjar, M. M. (2014). Four Arab American Plays: Works by Leila Buck, Jamil Khoury, Yussef El Guindi, and Lameece Issaq & Jacob Kader. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers.
Tahawi, M. and Salim, S. (2012). Brooklyn Heights. London: Faber and Faber.
Recommended Links:
Middle Eastern American Resources Online (MEARO)
Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab Stereotypes
“Selected Works in Contemporary Arab American Studies” Compiled by Dr. Johanna Sellman, The Ohio State University Libraries Middle East Studies Librarian.