Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World

Governance Beyond the Center

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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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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Utgivningsdatum2013-01-01
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGovernance and Limited Statehood
Antal sidor242
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349464104

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Hala Abou-Zaki, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), FrancePaul Amar, University of California, USAFadi A. Bardawil, University of Chicago, USANaoual Belakhdar, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyMalika Bouziane, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyCilja Harders, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyAnja Hoffmann, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyThomas Hüsken, University of Zürich, SwitzerlandJean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), FranceFinn Stepputat, Danish Institute for International Studies

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