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Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is an anthropologist whose research centers around infrastructure, discard studies, environment, colonialism, austerity, platform capitalism, the Middle East, and Europe. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award. It explores what happens when, as Palestinians are increasingly forced into proximity with their own wastes and with those of their occupiers, waste is transformed from “matter out of place,” per prevailing anthropological wisdom, into matter with no place to go—or its own ecology. Her new book project, Homing Austerity: Airbnb in Athens, investigates how Airbnb is transforming the relationship between subjectivity, real estate, and work in Greece as a way of understanding the joint world-making of austerity and platform capitalism. Other publications include pieces in International Journal of Middle East Studies; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East;  Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Jerusalem Quarterly; Anthropology News; New Centennial Review; and the Refugee Studies Centre Working Paper Series at the University of Oxford. Her film, Waste Underground (with videographer Ali al-Deek), premiered at the Sharjah Biennial in Ramallah in 2017. Her research has been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Columbia University, and Palestinian American Research Council.

 

MESPI is a curated interactive platform for ME studies resources specifically tailored for the needs of teachers, researchers, and students. It will be the one-stop shop for course design on the macro level, lesson planning on the micro level, and for scholarship vis-a-vis specific topics, countries, and disciplines. Contact us at info@ArabStudiesInstitute.org.


MESPI Core Team

Bassam Haddad, Co-Director
Ziad Abu-Rish, Co-Director
Nadya Sbaiti, NEWTON Coordinator
Rochelle Davis, MESPI Editor
Rosie Bsheer, MESPI Editor
Sherene Seikaly, MESPI Editor
Huseyin Yilmaz, MESPI Editor
Mekarem Eljamal, MESPI Managing Editor
Jacob Bessen, Essential Readings Coordinator
Maddie Vagadori, MESPI Website Coordinator
Shakeela Omar, Peer-Review Articles Review Coordinator
Jonathan Adler, Essential Texts Coordinator
Michael Haddad, Media Roundups Coordinator
Kylie Broderick, ASI Liaison

ARTICLES BY Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)