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Gender and Citizenship in the Global Age
One of the major issues this book examines is what the African experience and identity have contributed to the debate on citizenship in the era of globalisation. The volume presents case studies of different African contexts, illustrating the gendered aspects of citizenship as experienced by African men and women. Citizenship carries manifold gendered aspects and given the distinct gender roles and responsibilities, globalisation affects citizenship in different ways. It further examines new forms of citizenship emerging from the current era dominated by a neoliberal focus. The book is not exclusive in terms of theorisation but its focus on African contexts, with an in-depth analysis taking into consideration local culture and practices and their implications for citizenship, provides a good foundation for further scholarly work on gender and citizenship in Africa.
Ibn Khaldūn and the Arab Origins of the Sociology of Civilisation and Power
This book presents Ibn Khaldūn's anticipatory sociology of civilisations and power. Half a millennium before the birth of modern sociology in the West, Ibn Khaldūn—scholar, political counsellor, and Malikite judge—wrote a revolutionary sociological-philosophical treatise, the Muqaddima. This book places his broad, complex, and refined treatise against the background of the Islamo-Greek culture of his time and analyses its main sociological, but also philosophical, historical, and scientific perspectives. Finally, thanks to its "universalisable" core, the author recontextualizes the teachings from the Muqaddima to reveal the deep insights it provides into the society, politics and law o...
L'autorité religieuse et ses limites en terres d'islam
Reprenant à nouveaux frais la question de l'autorité religieuse, ce livre présente différents cas d'étude en Asie centrale, à travers l'Empire ottoman, dans les Balkans et en Turquie. Sont examinés les rapports complexes qu'entretiennent, avec le pouvoir politique, cheikhs soufis, oulémas, sheikh ul-islâm, hégoumènes, ou encore clergé latin à l'époque prémoderne. Les XXe et XXIe siècles sont analysés du point de vue des transformations de l'autorité religieuse, certes fragmentée mais vigoureuse, en particulier chez les réformistes musulmans bosniaques et les Bektashis albanais, également parmi les Alévis d'Anatolie ou bien dans le soufisme féminin à Istanbul. Il appar...
Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle East, from a condition of latent citizenship in the colonial and post-independence era to the revolutionary dynamics that stimulated democratic participation. Considering the parallel histories of citizenship in Yemen and Tunisia, Challand develops innovative theories of violence and representation that view cultural representations as calls for a decentralized political order and democratic accountability over the security forces. He argues that a new collective imaginary emerged in 2011 when the people represented itself as the only legitimate power able to decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen and Tunisia, but also elsewhere in the Middle East, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence, representation, and democracy.
Women Saints in World Religions
Presents stories and commentaries on women saints from the Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions.
Memory and Presence of Female Saints in Ksar El Kebir (Morocco)
This book discusses hagiographical sources from Morocco taking in consideration the often-overlooked oral tradition. Orality, as is shown in this study, completes and enriches the vision of hagiography that written sources traditionally has offered. The most relevant example in this book is the high presence of female saints in oral narratives that were not included in any other written sources. Recovering oral tradition to study hagiography as well as the role of female saints in Morocco has been one of the main areas of focus in this study as well as problematizing the dependence and dialogue between written and oral culture and can help to understand the diffusion and presence of similar phenomena in other areas of Morocco.
Quartiers historiques Les
À l’échelle mondiale, nombreuses sont les villes qui possèdent leur quartier historique, de Lyon à Boston, en passant par Hanoi. Qu’ils figurent ou non sur la liste des sites du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, les quartiers historiques constituent des réalités complexes qui remplissent de nombreuses fonctions culturelles, sociales, économiques et politiques. En contrepartie, sous l’effet de l’activité et de l’économie touristiques, ils sont soumis è de fortes pressions qui affectent autant leur développement démographique que leur vie de quartier, ou encore la qualité du commerce qu’on y retrouve. Les 13 contributions contenues dans cet ouvrage collectif explorent divers aspects relatifs à la construction des quartiers historiques et aux pressions qui découlent de leur « mise en tourisme ». Universitaires et praticiens unissent ici leurs efforts pour présenter le quartier historique comme un enjeu dont le débat incombe à la fois aux décideurs politiques, aux administrateurs, aux savants et aux citoyens.
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Dynamiques de la pauvreté en Afrique du nord et au Moyen-Orient
La pauvreté ne fait pas les gros titres, ni dans les médias ni dans la littérature spécialisée. La région du Moyen-Orient et de l'Afrique du Nord serait affectée par des problèmes autrement plus graves : au premier plan la " montée de l'islamisme " et la persistance de conflits régionaux meurtriers. La pauvreté ne concernerait que des catégories résiduelles ou marginales de la population de cette région globalement " riche ". Pourtant, la pauvreté y gagne partout du terrain, amplifie les inégalités, engendre des ruptures. Elle nourrit la désespérance, brise des ambitions, alimente l'humiliation. Elle est matérielle, " humaine ", sociale, psychologique, politique. Les cont...
