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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Imagining unity
- Seeing like a citizen, acting like a state
- The politics of deliberation: q?t chews as public spheres
- Practicing piety, summoning groups: disorder as control
- Piety in time: contemporary islamic movements in national and transnational contexts
- Conclusion
- Politics as performative
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.