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Peripheral visions : publics, power, and performance in Yemen / Lisa Wedeen.
LIBRA JQ1842.A58 W43 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wedeen, Lisa.
- Series:
- Chicago studies in practices of meaning
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yemen (Republic)--Politics and government.
- Yemen (Republic).
- Politics and government.
- Political participation--Yemen (Republic).
- Political participation.
- Nationalism--Yemen (Republic).
- Nationalism.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226877907
- 9780226877914
- 0226877906
- 0226877914
- OCLC:
- 191865882
- Online:
- Publisher description
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