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==Early life==
==Early life==
Raised in [[Newark, New Jersey]], she attended [[Weequahic High School]],<ref>[[Sherry Ortner|Ortner, Sherry B.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=D7WBfSN_kuwC&pg=PA3 ''New Jersey dreaming: capital, culture, and the class of '58''], p. 3. [[Duke University Press]], 2003. {{ISBN|0-8223-3108-X}}. Accessed September 19, 2019. "The most famous graduate of Weequahic High School is Philip Roth, who has written with great ethnographic acumen about the school and the neighborhood in many of his novels (starting with the collection of short stories, ''Goodbye, Columbus''), Other graduates of the school, well known in other circles, include the former basketball star and coach Alvin Attles, a highly placed economist in the Reagen Administration named Robert Ortner (no relation, as far as I know), Feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, and urban sociologist Janet Abu-Lughod (who also happens to be the mother of anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod)."</ref> where she was influenced by the works of [[Lewis Mumford]] about urbanization.<ref name="Mum">{{cite web|url=http://www.albany.edu/mumford/About_us/Abu_lecture.pdf |title=First Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture |date=2000-04-12 |access-date=2009-08-31 |quote=When I was still in high school, there were four books I read that left a life-shaping effect on everything I have since thought about cities. Two of those -- Technics and Civilization (first published in 1934), and The Culture of Cities (first published in 1938) -- were written by Lewis Mumford. They made an urbanist out of me, and I was not alone. Single-handedly, Mumford's writings placed cities on the agenda of ordinary Americans. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815142814/http://www.albany.edu/mumford/About_us/Abu_lecture.pdf |archive-date=2009-08-15 }}</ref>
Raised in [[Newark, New Jersey]], United States, she attended [[Weequahic High School]],<ref>[[Sherry Ortner|Ortner, Sherry B.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=D7WBfSN_kuwC&pg=PA3 ''New Jersey dreaming: capital, culture, and the class of '58''], p. 3. [[Duke University Press]], 2003. {{ISBN|0-8223-3108-X}}. Accessed September 19, 2019. "The most famous graduate of Weequahic High School is Philip Roth, who has written with great ethnographic acumen about the school and the neighborhood in many of his novels (starting with the collection of short stories, ''Goodbye, Columbus''), Other graduates of the school, well known in other circles, include the former basketball star and coach Alvin Attles, a highly placed economist in the Reagan Administration named Robert Ortner (no relation, as far as I know), Feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, and urban sociologist Janet Abu-Lughod (who also happens to be the mother of anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod)."</ref> where she was influenced by the works of [[Lewis Mumford]] about urbanization.<ref name="Mum">{{cite web|url=http://www.albany.edu/mumford/About_us/Abu_lecture.pdf |title=First Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture |date=2000-04-12 |access-date=2009-08-31 |quote=When I was still in high school, there were four books I read that left a life-shaping effect on everything I have since thought about cities. Two of those -- Technics and Civilization (first published in 1934), and The Culture of Cities (first published in 1938) -- were written by Lewis Mumford. They made an urbanist out of me, and I was not alone. Single-handedly, Mumford's writings placed cities on the agenda of ordinary Americans. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815142814/http://www.albany.edu/mumford/About_us/Abu_lecture.pdf |archive-date=2009-08-15 }}</ref>


==Academia==
==Academia==
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In 1976 she was awarded a John Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Sociology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/33-janet-l-abu-lughod |title=Guggenheim Fellowships |access-date=2009-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211022258/http://gf.org/fellows/33-Janet-L-Abu-Lughod |archive-date=2009-02-11 }}</ref> Abu-Lughod received over a dozen prestigious national government fellowships and grants to research in the areas of [[demography]], [[urban sociology]], urban planning, economic and social development, world systems, and [[urbanization]] in the United States, the [[Middle East]] and the Third World.<ref name=":0" />
In 1976 she was awarded a John Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Sociology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/33-janet-l-abu-lughod |title=Guggenheim Fellowships |access-date=2009-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211022258/http://gf.org/fellows/33-Janet-L-Abu-Lughod |archive-date=2009-02-11 }}</ref> Abu-Lughod received over a dozen prestigious national government fellowships and grants to research in the areas of [[demography]], [[urban sociology]], urban planning, economic and social development, world systems, and [[urbanization]] in the United States, the [[Middle East]] and the Third World.<ref name=":0" />


She was especially well-known for her monograph ''[[Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350]]'' wherein she argued that a pre-modern world system extending across Eurasia existed in the 13th Century, prior to the formation of the modern world-system identified by [[Immanuel Wallerstein]]. In addition, she argued that the "rise of the West," beginning with the intrusion of armed Portuguese ships into the relatively peaceful trade networks of the Indian Ocean in the 16th century, was not a result of features internal to Europe, but was made possible by a collapse in the previous world system.
She was especially well known for her monograph ''[[Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350]]'' wherein she argued that a pre-modern world system extending across Eurasia existed in the 13th century, prior to the formation of the modern world-system identified by [[Immanuel Wallerstein]]. Among a variety of factors, Abu-Lughod emphasized the role of [[Champagne fairs]], the [[Mongol Empire]], the [[Mamluk Sultanate]], and the history of the [[Indian subcontinent]] in shaping this previous world system. In addition, she argued that the "rise of the West," beginning with the intrusion of armed Portuguese ships into the relatively peaceful trade networks of the Indian Ocean in the 16th century, was not a result of features internal to Europe, but was made possible by a collapse in the previous world system.<ref>Reviews for ''Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350'':
* {{cite journal |last1=Lieberman |first1=Victor |date=July 1993 |title=Abu-Lughod's egalitarian world order. A review article |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/abs/abulughods-egalitarian-world-order-a-review-article/B9E0463D3B12AC322FD119C07B870B62 |journal=[[Comparative Studies in Society and History]] |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=544–550 |doi=10.1017/S0010417500018570 |s2cid=146212765 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Gills |first1=Barry K. |date=Summer 2014 |title=Janet Abu-Lughod and the World System: The History of World System Development and the Development of World System History |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1561499929/521E06DACC074C39PQ |journal=[[Journal of World-Systems Research]] |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=174–179 |doi=10.5195/jwsr.2014.547 |access-date=November 6, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]|doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Sassen |first1=Saskia |date=Summer 2014 |title=Extricating the Analytics: Janet Abu-Lughod's Before European Hegemony |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1561499938/521E06DACC074C39PQ |journal=[[Journal of World-Systems Research]] |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=179–181 |access-date=November 6, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Pounds |first1=Norman J. G. |date=March 1991 |title=Book Reviews -- Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet Abu-Lughod |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2563677 |journal=[[Annals of the American Association of Geographers]] |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=159–160 |jstor=2563677 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Chirot |first1=Daniel |date=January 1991 |title=Was Europe Lucky, Evil, or Smart? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2072044 |journal=[[Contemporary Sociology]] |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=26–28 |doi=10.2307/2072044 |jstor=2072044 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Snedeker |first1=George |date=Summer 1992 |title=Book Reviews: Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40404624 |journal=[[Science & Society]] |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=226–228 |jstor=40404624 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Gran |first1=Guy |date=October 1991 |title=Before European hegemony: The world system A.D. 1250–1350 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0305750X91900905 |journal=[[World Development (journal)|World Development]] |volume=19 |issue=10 |pages=1475 |doi=10.1016/0305-750X(91)90090-5 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Greif |first1=Avner |date=June 1990 |title=Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123293 |journal=[[The Journal of Economic History]] |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=455–456 |doi=10.1017/S0022050700036640 |jstor=2123293 |s2cid=154766818 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Wallerstein |first1=Immanuel |date=February 1992 |title=Reviews: Before European Hegemony: The World System, 1250-1350 A.D. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/163766 |journal=[[International Journal of Middle East Studies]] |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=128–131 |doi=10.1017/S002074380000146X |jstor=163766 |s2cid=161426181 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Archibald R. |date=July 1991 |title=Reviews: Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/2864229 |journal=[[Speculum (journal)|Speculum]] |volume=66 |issue=3 |pages=605 |doi=10.2307/2864229 |jstor=2864229 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Goldberg |first1=Ellis |date=April 1991 |title=Book Reviews: Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0010414091024001007 |journal=[[Comparative Political Studies]] |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=130–133 |doi=10.1177/0010414091024001007 |s2cid=220984170 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Guzman |first1=Gergory G. |date=Spring 1991 |title=Book Reviews: Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6563.1991.tb00821.x |journal=[[The Historian (journal)|The Historian]] |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=521 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.1991.tb00821.x |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Manz |first1=Beatrice F. |date=Summer 1991 |title=Reviews: Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/204569 |journal=[[Journal of Interdisciplinary History]] |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=101–103 |doi=10.2307/204569 |jstor=204569 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Ludden |first1=David |date=January 1991 |title=Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0002716291513001024 |journal=[[The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]] |volume=513 |issue=1 |pages=176 |doi=10.1177/0002716291513001024 |s2cid=220721753 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Bulliet |first1=Richard W. |date=October 1991 |title=Reviews of Books: Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250–1350 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/96/4/1148/64854 |journal=[[The American Historical Review]] |volume=96 |issue=4 |pages=1148–1149 |doi=10.1086/ahr/96.4.1148 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Rose |first1=Linda |date=January 1993 |title=Reviews of Books: Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250-1350 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/604227 |journal=[[Journal of the American Oriental Society]] |volume=113 |issue=1 |pages=135–136 |doi=10.2307/604227 |jstor=604227 |access-date=November 6, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lowry |first1=Todd S. |date=Spring 1993 |title=Special interest -- Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 by K. N. Chaudhuri / Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet Abu-Lughod |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/197136309/521E06DACC074C39PQ |journal=[[History of Political Economy]] |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=206 |access-date=November 6, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Endicott-West |first1=Elizabeth |date=May 1990 |title=Book Reviews: Asia General--Before European Hegemony |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/230410931/521E06DACC074C39PQ |journal=[[The Journal of Asian Studies]] |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=349–350 |doi=10.2307/2057303 |jstor=2057303 |s2cid=59427038 |access-date=November 6, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref>


Abu-Lughod in her works approaches the social and economic development of global cities with the commitment to seeing and acting on possibilities for constructive social change. The span of her works goes from micro-level studies of territoriality and social change, to the analysis of the diffusion of global cities in the Western and Arab world, to historical studies of medieval cities.<ref name=":0" />
Abu-Lughod in her works approaches the social and economic development of global cities with the commitment to seeing and acting on possibilities for constructive social change. The span of her works goes from micro-level studies of territoriality and social change, to the analysis of the diffusion of global cities in the Western and Arab world, to historical studies of medieval cities.<ref name=":0" />


She published several well-received works on American cities including ''New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities''<ref>Reviews for ''New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities'':
She published several well-received works on American cities including ''New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities''<ref>Reviews for ''New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities'':


* {{cite journal |last1=King |first1=Anthony D. |date=September 2001 |title=Home to the world: Abu-Lughod's New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10780870122185235 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=151-154 |doi=10.1177/10780870122185235 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Brenner |first1=Neil |date=September 2001 |title=World city theory, globalization and the comparative-historical method: Reflections on Janet Abu-Lughod's interpretation of contemporary urban restructing |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10780870122185235 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=124–147 |doi=10.1177/10780870122185235 |s2cid=220914804 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Ley |first1=David |date=September 2001 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles made in the USA? |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10780870122185235 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=154-157 |doi=10.1177/10780870122185235 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Clarke |first1=Susan E. |date=September 2001 |title=Globalization, Democratic governance, and local politics |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10780870122185235 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=148–151 |doi=10.1177/10780870122185235 |s2cid=220914804 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Grazian |first1=David |date=November 2001 |title=Book Reviews: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/343154 |journal=[[American Journal of Sociology]] |volume=107 |issue=3 |pages=841-843 |doi=10.1086/343154 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=King |first1=Anthony D. |date=September 2001 |title=Home to the world: Abu-Lughod's New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10780870122185235 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=151–154 |doi=10.1177/10780870122185235 |s2cid=220914804 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Fasenfest |first1=David |date=March 2002 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/233611296/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Contemporary Sociology]] |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=170-171 |doi=10.2307/3089499 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Ley |first1=David |date=September 2001 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles made in the USA? |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10780870122185235 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=154–157 |doi=10.1177/10780870122185235 |s2cid=220914804 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Warf |first1=Barney |date=December 2001 |title=Book Reviews: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.00356 |journal=[[International Journal of Urban and Regional Research]] |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=915-916 |doi=10.1111/1468-2427.00356 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Grazian |first1=David |date=November 2001 |title=Book Reviews: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/343154 |journal=[[American Journal of Sociology]] |volume=107 |issue=3 |pages=841–843 |doi=10.1086/343154 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Fasenfest |first1=David |date=March 2002 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/233611296/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Contemporary Sociology]] |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=170–171 |doi=10.2307/3089499 |jstor=3089499 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Warf |first1=Barney |date=December 2001 |title=Book Reviews: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.00356 |journal=[[International Journal of Urban and Regional Research]] |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=915–916 |doi=10.1111/1468-2427.00356 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Muller |first1=P. O. |date=June 2005 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/225813497/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Choice Reviews]] |volume=42 |issue=10 |pages=1756 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Muller |first1=P. O. |date=June 2005 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/225813497/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Choice Reviews]] |volume=42 |issue=10 |pages=1756 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Hannigan |first1=John |date=Winter 2004 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/220528013/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Canadian Journal of Sociology]] |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=145-147 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref> and ''Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles''.<ref>Reviews for ''Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles'':
* {{cite journal |last1=Hannigan |first1=John |date=Winter 2004 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/220528013/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Canadian Journal of Sociology]] |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=145–147 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Keil |first1=Roger |date=Autumn 2000 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: American's Global Cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/229612342/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Journal of the American Planning Association]] |volume=66 |issue=4 |pages=439–440 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}

* {{cite journal |last1=Nerad |first1=Julie Cary |date=Spring 2009 |title=Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/725209557/CC4C4C47E5B843AFPQ |journal=[[African American Review]] |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=213-215 |doi=10.1353/afa.0.0004 |access-date=November 4, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=July 26, 1999 |title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/197011990/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Publishers Weekly]] |volume=246 |issue=30 |pages=76 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Flamm |first1=Michael W. |date=Fall 2009 |title=Review: Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles by Janet L. Abu-Lughod |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40543569 |journal=[[Journal of American Ethnic History]] |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=79-80 |access-date=November 4, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Bennett |first1=Larry |date=February 2001 |title=Book Reviews: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities. Janet Abu-Lughod |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/jop.63.1.2691913 |journal=[[The Journal of Politics]] |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=317–319 |doi=10.1086/jop.63.1.2691913 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Godfrey |first1=Brian J. |date=October 1999 |title=America's Global Cities |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/225335775/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |journal=[[Geographical Review]] |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=596–600 |doi=10.2307/216105 |jstor=216105 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Sites |first1=William |date=March 2003 |title=Global City, American City: Theories of Globalization and Approaches to Urban History |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0096144203029003012 |journal=[[Journal of Urban History]] |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=333–346 |doi=10.1177/0096144203029003012 |s2cid=143500504 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite magazine |last1=Glazer |first1=Nathan |date=October 30, 2000 |title=Love and the city |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/212806912/71E33DBFEBE5485CPQ |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |volume=223 |issue=18 |pages=48–52 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}</ref> and ''Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles''.<ref>Reviews for ''Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles'':
* {{cite journal |last1=Nerad |first1=Julie Cary |date=Spring 2009 |title=Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/725209557/CC4C4C47E5B843AFPQ |journal=[[African American Review]] |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=213–215 |doi=10.1353/afa.0.0004 |s2cid=161112182 |access-date=November 4, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Flamm |first1=Michael W. |date=Fall 2009 |title=Review: Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles by Janet L. Abu-Lughod |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40543569 |journal=[[Journal of American Ethnic History]] |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=79–80 |doi=10.2307/40543569 |jstor=40543569 |s2cid=254489576 |access-date=November 4, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Rosenthal |first1=N. B. |date=July 2008 |title=Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/225730388/CC4C4C47E5B843AFPQ |journal=[[Choice Reviews]] |volume=45 |issue=11 |pages=2029 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Rosenthal |first1=N. B. |date=July 2008 |title=Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/225730388/CC4C4C47E5B843AFPQ |journal=[[Choice Reviews]] |volume=45 |issue=11 |pages=2029 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
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* {{cite journal |last1=Herman |first1=Max |date=September 2009 |title=Book Reviews: Race, Space and Riots in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles by Janet Abu-Lughod |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1078087408323379 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=135-137 |doi=10.1177/1078087408323379 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Herman |first1=Max |date=September 2009 |title=Book Reviews: Race, Space and Riots in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles by Janet Abu-Lughod |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1078087408323379 |journal=[[Urban Affairs Review]] |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=135–137 |doi=10.1177/1078087408323379 |s2cid=154365622 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Rich |first1=Wilbur |date=Winter 2008 |title=Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, Janet Abu-Lughod |url=https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=18365 |journal=[[Political Science Quarterly]] |volume=123 |issue=4 |pages=689-691 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Rich |first1=Wilbur |date=Winter 2008 |title=Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, Janet Abu-Lughod |url=https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=18365 |journal=[[Political Science Quarterly]] |volume=123 |issue=4 |pages=689–691 |doi=10.1002/j.1538-165X.2008.tb01816.x |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=McCarthy |first1=John D. |date=March 2009 |title=From Race Riot to Collective Violence |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/009430610903800204 |journal=[[Contemporary Sociology]] |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=118-120 |doi=10.1177/009430610903800204 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=McCarthy |first1=John D. |date=March 2009 |title=From Race Riot to Collective Violence |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/009430610903800204 |journal=[[Contemporary Sociology]] |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=118–120 |doi=10.1177/009430610903800204 |s2cid=220855152 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Lowenstein |first1=Jeff Kelly |date=May 2008 |title=Race Riots: Lessons Learned |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/215533895/5268975D0004CE3PQ |journal=[[ColorLines]] |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=57 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |via=[[ProQuest]]}}
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* {{cite journal |last1=Elkins |first1=Alex |date=March 2016 |title=Stand Our Ground: The Street Justice of Urban American Riots, 1900 to 1968 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144215623490 |journal=[[Journal of Urban History]] |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=419-437 |doi=10.1177/0096144215623490 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}
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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
She was married in 1951–1991 to [[Ibrahim Abu-Lughod]]. They had four children; [[Lila Abu-Lughod|Lila]], Mariam, Deena, and Jawad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=In Memoriam: Janet Abu-Lughod|url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/30391|last=جدلية|date=March 17, 2014|website=Jadaliyya - جدلية|language=en|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref> She died aged 85 in New York City on December 14, 2013.<ref name="legacy"/>
She was married in 1951–1991 to [[Ibrahim Abu-Lughod]]. They had four children; [[Lila Abu-Lughod|Lila]], Mariam, Deena, and Jawad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=In Memoriam: Janet Abu-Lughod|url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/30391|last=جدلية|date=March 17, 2014|website=Jadaliyya - جدلية|language=en|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref> Janet's family background is [[Jews|Jewish]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosen |first=Lawrence |date=2014-04-20 |title=Gendered Orientalism |url=https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/04/20/gendered-orientalism/ |access-date=2023-09-08 |website=The American Interest |language=en-US}}</ref> She died aged 85 in New York City on December 14, 2013.<ref name="legacy"/>


==Works==
==Works==
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* {{cite book |title= New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities|year= 2000|publisher= University of Minnesota Press|isbn= 978-0-8166-3336-4|pages= 580}}
* {{cite book |title= Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles|year= 2007|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= USA|isbn= 978-0-19-532875-2|pages=360 }}
* {{cite book |title= Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles|year= 2007|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= USA|isbn= 978-0-19-532875-2|pages=360 }}

==See also==
*[[Ayşe Zarakol]]
*[[John Darwin (historian)]]


==References==
==References==
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Janet Abu-Lughod
Born
Janet Lippman

(1928-08-03)August 3, 1928
DiedDecember 14, 2013(2013-12-14) (aged 85)
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
OccupationScholar
Known forUrban Studies; World-systems theory
SpouseIbrahim Abu-Lughod m 1951, div. 1991
ChildrenLila, Mariam, Deena, and Jawad

Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist who made major contributions to world-systems theory and urban sociology.[1][2]

Early life

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Raised in Newark, New Jersey, United States, she attended Weequahic High School,[3] where she was influenced by the works of Lewis Mumford about urbanization.[4]

Academia

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The 13th century world-system. Map based on Janet Abu-Lughod's work.

Janet Abu-Lughod held graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her teaching career began at the University of Illinois, took her to the American University in Cairo, Smith College, and Northwestern University, where she taught for twenty years and directed several urban studies programmes. In 1950-1952 Abu-Lughod was a director of research for the American Society of Planning Officials, in 1954-1957 – research associate at the University of Pennsylvania, consultant and author for the American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods.[5] In 1987 she accepted a professorship in sociology and historical studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, from which she retired as professor emerita in 1998.[6] Upon retirement she held visiting short-term teaching appointments at Bosphorous University in Istanbul and on the International Honors Program at the University of Cairo.[5] She published over a hundred articles and thirteen books dealing with urban sociology, the history and dynamics of the World System, and Middle Eastern cities, including an urban history of Cairo that is still considered one of the classic works on that city: Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious.

In 1976 she was awarded a John Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Sociology.[7] Abu-Lughod received over a dozen prestigious national government fellowships and grants to research in the areas of demography, urban sociology, urban planning, economic and social development, world systems, and urbanization in the United States, the Middle East and the Third World.[5]

She was especially well known for her monograph Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 wherein she argued that a pre-modern world system extending across Eurasia existed in the 13th century, prior to the formation of the modern world-system identified by Immanuel Wallerstein. Among a variety of factors, Abu-Lughod emphasized the role of Champagne fairs, the Mongol Empire, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the history of the Indian subcontinent in shaping this previous world system. In addition, she argued that the "rise of the West," beginning with the intrusion of armed Portuguese ships into the relatively peaceful trade networks of the Indian Ocean in the 16th century, was not a result of features internal to Europe, but was made possible by a collapse in the previous world system.[8]

Abu-Lughod in her works approaches the social and economic development of global cities with the commitment to seeing and acting on possibilities for constructive social change. The span of her works goes from micro-level studies of territoriality and social change, to the analysis of the diffusion of global cities in the Western and Arab world, to historical studies of medieval cities.[5]

She published several well-received works on American cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities[9] and Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.[10]

Personal life

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She was married in 1951–1991 to Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. They had four children; Lila, Mariam, Deena, and Jawad.[11] Janet's family background is Jewish.[12] She died aged 85 in New York City on December 14, 2013.[1]

Works

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  • Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious. Princeton University Press. 1971. pp. 284. ISBN 978-0-691-03085-2.
  • Rabat, Urban Apartheid in Morocco. Princeton Studies on the Near East. Princeton University Press. 1981. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-691-10098-2.
  • Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. USA: Oxford University Press. 1991. pp. 464. ISBN 978-0-19-506774-3.
  • Changing Cities: Urban Sociology. Harpercollins College Div. 1991. p. 441. ISBN 978-0-06-040138-2.
  • New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities. University of Minnesota Press. 2000. p. 580. ISBN 978-0-8166-3336-4.
  • Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. USA: Oxford University Press. 2007. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-19-532875-2.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "JANET L. ABU-LUGHOD Obituary: View JANET ABU-LUGHOD's Obituary by New York Times". legacy.com. Retrieved 2014-11-30.
  2. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1973). "Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. ISSN 0190-227X. Retrieved 2014-11-30.
  3. ^ Ortner, Sherry B. New Jersey dreaming: capital, culture, and the class of '58, p. 3. Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8223-3108-X. Accessed September 19, 2019. "The most famous graduate of Weequahic High School is Philip Roth, who has written with great ethnographic acumen about the school and the neighborhood in many of his novels (starting with the collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus), Other graduates of the school, well known in other circles, include the former basketball star and coach Alvin Attles, a highly placed economist in the Reagan Administration named Robert Ortner (no relation, as far as I know), Feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, and urban sociologist Janet Abu-Lughod (who also happens to be the mother of anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod)."
  4. ^ "First Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture" (PDF). 2000-04-12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2009-08-31. When I was still in high school, there were four books I read that left a life-shaping effect on everything I have since thought about cities. Two of those -- Technics and Civilization (first published in 1934), and The Culture of Cities (first published in 1938) -- were written by Lewis Mumford. They made an urbanist out of me, and I was not alone. Single-handedly, Mumford's writings placed cities on the agenda of ordinary Americans.
  5. ^ a b c d Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 3.
  6. ^ "Getcited - Janet Abu-Lughot". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  7. ^ "Guggenheim Fellowships". Archived from the original on 2009-02-11. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  8. ^ Reviews for Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350:
  9. ^ Reviews for New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities:
  10. ^ Reviews for Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles:
  11. ^ جدلية (March 17, 2014). "In Memoriam: Janet Abu-Lughod". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  12. ^ Rosen, Lawrence (2014-04-20). "Gendered Orientalism". The American Interest. Retrieved 2023-09-08.