South Yemen's independence struggle : generations of resistance / Anne-Linda Amira Augustin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustin, Anne-Linda Amira, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hir ak al-Jan ub i (Yemen).

Nationalism--Yemen, South.

Nationalism.

History.

Yemen, South--History.

Yemen, South.

Yemen (People's Democratic Republic)--History.

Yemen (People's Democratic Republic).

South Yemen.

Yemen (Republic).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2021.

Summary:

"At its beginning in 2007, the Southern Movement in South Yemen was a loose merger of different people, most of them former army personnel and state employees of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) who were forced from their jobs after the war in 1994, only four years after the unification between the PDRY and the Yemen Arab Republic. This bold ethnographic account of a persistent Arab uprising, in a rarely studied corner of the Middle East, explores why the Southern Movement has grown so tremendously during the last decade and how it developed from a primarily social movement demanding social rights into a mass protest movement claiming independence for a state that had long vanished from the world map. Anne-Linda Amira Augustin asks why so many young people born after 1990 joined the movement and demanded the re-establishment of a state that they had never themselves experienced. At the core of South Yemeni resistance lies the transmission from generation to generation of a dominant counternarrative, which may be seen as the continuation and rehabilitation of the PDRY's national narrative. This narrative, amplified through everyday communication in families and neighborhoods, but also by mediamakers, journalists, academics, civil society actors, and by the movement's activists, opposes the national-unity narrative of the Republic of Yemen and intensifies the demands for an independent state.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ethnography of an Independence Struggle

The Generation of Unity and Intergenerational Transmission

Intergenerational Transmission as an Everyday Form of Resistance

1. The Sociopolitical Environment

Historical Embeddedness

Descent-Based Discrimination

Gender Comportment and Inequality

Violence and Everyday Feelings of Insecurity

2. Actors

The Street Activist

The Multiplying Activist

The Unintentional Activist

The Home Activist

3. The Content

Yemeni Nationalism and the Unity Narrative of the Republic of Yemen

The Glorious Pre-unity South

The Marginalized Post-unity South

Coming to Terms with Past Failures and Mistakes

4. Spaces

The Family Home

The Neighborhood

The School

Public Gatherings and Demonstrations

5. Media and Symbols

The Media

National Symbols and Relics of the Past

Stones of Memory

Music, Poems, and Slogans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781649031082

1649031084

OCLC:

1237634010

Publisher Number:

99989607961