Getting Comfortable

Episode 2: (Un)Mapping Assumptions of a Region


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Join Kerry and Jayda as they discuss the assumptions attached to the region of the "Middle East" including what countries make up the region.

The works referenced in the episode include Abbas Amanat's “Introduction: Is There a Middle East? Problematizing a Virtual Space” in Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept, Bonine, Amanat, and Gasper, eds. (Stanford UP, 2012) and Michael E. Bonine, “Of Maps and Regions: Where is the Geographer’s Middle East?” in Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept, Bonine, Amanat, and Gasper, eds. (Stanford UP, 2012).

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Getting ComfortableBy UCCS Students