Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World

ISBN-13: 9781032134093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Opis

Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State," this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World since 2010, 1. State-crafting and Modes of Governance in the United Arab Emirates, 2. Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon, 3. Archiving in an Age of (Counter)Revolutions, 4. Class Power, the State and Contentious Politics in the age of Globalization: The case of Egypt, 5. Same Different? A Comparative Study of Kurdish-Led Rojava and Opposition-Held Syria, 6. Postcolonial State-ness and the Case of Rawabi, 7. Lebanon’s Wadi Khaled and Challenge of Sovereignty, 8. Egyptian State and Culture, 9. How Diplomatic Practices Make the Fuzzy State of Palestine Visible, 10. Daesh and the "Effect of the State", 11. Conclusion: The Westphalian State Effect