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Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
  • Language: en

Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East

The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the importance of contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa. John Chalcraft's ground-breaking account of popular protest emphasizes the revolutionary modern history of the entire region. Challenging top-down views of Middle Eastern politics, he looks at how commoners, subjects and citizens have long mobilised in defiance of authorities. Chalcraft takes examples from a wide variety of protest movements from Morocco to Iran. He forges a new narrative of change over time, creating a truly comparative framework rooted in the dynamics of hegemonic contestation. Beginning with movements under the Ottomans, which challenged corruption and oppression under the banners of religion, justice, rights and custom, this book goes on to discuss the impact of constitutional movements, armed struggles, nationalism and independence, revolution and Islamism. A work of unprecedented range and depth, this volume will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates studying protest in the region and beyond.

The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-02
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Challenges existing views of crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Invisible Cage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

The Invisible Cage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Uncovers the hidden history of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon, from independence to the present, to break new ground in Middle East Studies and challenge existing ways of thinking about migration.

Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 613

Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East

A ground-breaking account of popular protest in the Middle East and North Africa from the eighteenth century to the present. A work of unprecedented range and depth, this book will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates studying protest in the region and beyond.

Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-09-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume offers an unusual, interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars working on the major regions of the global South. The authors probe important episodes of resistance in the colony and postcolony for the light they shed on the vexed notion of counterhegemony, enriching our notion of resistance and pointing to new directions for research.

The Inevitable Caliphate?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Inevitable Caliphate?

Discusses the Caliphate in the ideas and discourse of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Qaeda.

The New Middle East
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 521

The New Middle East

The New Middle East critically examines the Arab popular uprisings of 2011-12.

The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

‘This extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic "1968," Western Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not provincialized, and we have the basis for a complete remapping, a thorough reinterpretation of the "Sixties."’ —Jean Allman, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities; Director, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis ‘This is a landmark achievement. It represents the most comprehensive effort t...

Butterfly Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 505

Butterfly Politics

“Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has come—always, but perhaps now more than ever.” —Cass Sunstein, coauthor of Nudge Under certain conditions, small simple actions can produce large and complex “butterfly effects.” Butterfly Politics shows how Catharine A. MacKinnon turned discrimination law into an effective tool against sexual abuse—grounding and predicting the worldwide #MeToo movement—and proposes concrete steps that could have further butterfly effects on women’s rights. Thirty years after she won the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Crafting Cooperation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 25

Crafting Cooperation

Regional institutions are an increasingly prominent feature of world politics. Their characteristics and performance vary widely: some are highly legalistic and bureaucratic, while others are informal and flexible. They also differ in terms of inclusiveness, decision-making rules and commitment to the non-interference principle. This is the first book to offer a conceptual framework for comparing the design and effectiveness of regional international institutions, including the EU, NATO, ASEAN, OAS, AU and the Arab League. The case studies, by a group of leading scholars of regional institutions, offer a rigorous, historically informed analysis of the differences and similarities in institutions across Europe, Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Africa. The chapters provide a more theoretically and empirically diverse analysis of the design and efficacy of regional institutions than heretofore available.