Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415665827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 322 str.

Stephanie Cronin

Opis

The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives.

Spis treści

Introduction Stephanie Cronin  Part 1: The Urban Crowd and Popular Protest  1. Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus James Grehan  2. Women and Popular Protest: Women’s Demonstrations in Nineteenth Century Iran Vanessa Martin  Part 2: Poor People’s Politics  3. Popular Protest, the Market and the State in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt John Chalcraft  4. Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed in Post-Revolutionary Iran Asef Bayat  5. Transforming the City from Below: Shanty-Town Dwellers and the Fight for Electricity in Casablanca Lamia Zaki  Part 3: Peasants and Nomads  6. Resisting the New State: The Rural Poor, Land and Modernity in Iran, 1921-1941 Stephanie Cronin  Part 4: Marginals and Outcasts  7. Exploring the Margins of Ottoman Society: "Disorderly" Gypsies" Failk Celik  8. Emancipated Female Slaves in Algiers: Marriage, Property and Social Advancement in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Fatiha Loualich  Part 5: European Subalterns  9. "Making It" in Pre-Colonial Tunis: Migration, Work and Poverty in a Mediterranean Port-City, c. 1815-1870 Julia Clancy-Smith  10. Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: Subalterns or Labour Aristocracy? Antony Gorman  Part 6: Subalterns and National Movements  11. From National Heroes to National Villains: Bandits and the Formation of Modern Greece Gerassimos Karabelias  12. Seizing the Initiative, Regaining a Voice: The Al-Aqsa Intifada as a Strategy of the Marginalized Roger Heacock 

O autorze

Stephanie Cronin is Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow at the University of Northampton. Her most recent book is Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921–1941, also published by Routledge.