Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World
Governance Beyond the Center
Published on 4. October 2013
Book
Hardback
XV, 242 pages
978-1-137-33868-6 (ISBN)
Description
The contributors link innovative analytical concepts and ethnographic in-depth case studies from the Arab world. Based on the debates on politics from below and dynamic concepts of state, all the chapters focus on informal institutions, non-elite actors, and the dynamic and contradictory relationship between state and society.
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Series
Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XV, 242 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-33868-6 (9781137338686)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-33869-3
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Governance Beyond the Center
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Governance Beyond the Center
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Persons
Hala Abou-Zaki, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
Paul Amar, University of California, USA
Fadi A. Bardawil, University of Chicago, USA
Naoual Belakhdar, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Malika Bouziane, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Cilja Harders, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Anja Hoffmann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Thomas Hüsken, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Jean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
Finn Stepputat, Danish Institute for International Studies
Content
1. Analyzing Politics beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation; Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane & Cilja Harders PART I 2. Contemporary Governscapes: Sovereign Practice and Hybrid Orders beyond the Center?; Finn Stepputat 3. The Bureaucratic Mode of Governance and Pratical Norms in West Africa and Beyond; Jean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan 4. Beyond the 'Radicalism-Pragmatism Dialectic' in the Study of Local Politics: Contrasting Privatizing, Communitarian, and 'Vulgar' Expressions in Revolutionary Cairo; Paul Amar 5. The Inward Turn and its Vicissitudes: Culture, Society and Politics in Post-1967 Arab Leftist Critiques; Fadi A. Bardawil PART II 6. Bringing the Local Back In: Local Politics between Informalization and Mobilization in an Age of Transformation in Egypt; Cilja Harders 7. Negotiating (Informal) Institutional Change: Understanding Local Politics in Jordan; Malika Bouziane 8. Morocco between Decentralization and Recentralization: Encountering the State in the 'Useless Morocco'; Anja Hoffmann 9. Revisiting Politics in Spaces 'Beyond the Centre:' The Case of the Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon; Hala Caroline Abou-Zaki 10. Political Participation in Algeria beyond the Polling Stations: Insights from Tizi-Ouzou; Naoual Belakhdar 11. Tribes, Revolution, and Political Culture in the Cyrenaica Region of Libya; Thomas Hüsken CONCLUSION 12. Conclusion; Cilja Harders, Anja Hoffmann & Malika Bouziane