Local politics and contemporary transformations in the Arab world governance beyond the center
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 relationshi...
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2013
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Table of Contents:
- Analyzing politics beyond the center in an age of transformation / Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane, Cilja Harders
- Contemporary governscapes : sovereign practice and hybrid orders beyond the center? / Finn Stepputat
- The bureaucratic mode of governance and pratical norms in West Africa and beyond / Jean-Pierre Olivier De Sardan
- Beyond the radicalism-pragmatism dialectic in the study of local politics : contrasting privatizing, communitarian, and vulgar expressions in revolutionary Cairo / Paul Amar
- The inward turn and its vicissitudes : culture, society and politics in post-1967 Arab leftist critiques / Fadi A. Bardawil
- Bringing the local back in : local politics between informalization and mobilization in an age of transformation in Egypt / Cilja Harders
- Negotiating (informal) institutional change : understanding local politics in Jordan / Malika Bouziane
- Morocco between decentralization and recentralization : encountering the state in the useless Morocco / Anja Hoffmann
- Revisiting politics in spaces beyond the centre : the case of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon / Hala Caroline Abou-Zaki
- Political participation in Algeria beyond the polling stations : insights from Tizi-Ouzou / Naoual Belakhdar
- Tribes, revolution, and political culture in the Cyrenaica region of Libya / Thomas Hüsken
- Conclusion / Cilja Harders, Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane