Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World [electronic resource] : Governance Beyond the Center /
Bouziane, M.editor.
Harders, C.editor.
Hoffmann, A.editor.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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