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Peripheral visions : publics, power, and performance in Yemen /
The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226877921 0226877922 9786612240102 6612240105 1282240102 9781282240100 |