Peripheral visions
Subtitle: politics, power, and performance in Yemen
By: Lisa Wedeen.
Series: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780226877907; 9780226877914
Subjects: Political participation -- Yemen (Republic); Nationalism -- Yemen; Yemen (Republic) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Imagining unity; title: Seeing like a citizen, acting like a state; title: The politics of deliberation: q?t chews as public spheres; title: Practicing piety, summoning groups: disorder as control; title: Piety in time: contemporary islamic movements in national and transnational contexts; title: Conclusion; title: Politics as performative; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.