The Power and the People : Paths of Resistance in the Middle East


Charles. Tripp
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (412 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Credits; Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 State Capture and Violent Resistance; Why Armed Resistance?; The Roots of Resistance: Colonial and Anti-colonial Violence; The Long Algerian War of Independence, 1830-1962; Palestine: Resisting Foreign Occupation, 1920-1948; Occupying Powers: War, Settlement, Resistance and Identity; Palestine: The Emergence and the Purposes of Armed Resistance; Iraq: Resistance to Foreign Occupation After 2003; The National Security State: Violent Domination and Resistance. - 5. History Wars: Contesting the Past, Reclaiming the Future. - Palestine: The First Intifada (1987-1991) and Resistance to the Wall (2003-2011)Resisting Syria in Lebanon; Nonviolence and the Mobilized Public; 3 Imposition and Resistance in Economic Life; Resisting the Iron Cage; Imperialism and the Colonial Economy; Strikes and Protests in Ottoman Turkey, Egypt and Qajar Iran; Nationalization, Privatization and Their Discontents; Labour Unrest in Egypt and North Africa: From Corporatism to the Infitah; Organized Labour and Workers' Protests in Egypt (1995-2011); Alternative Economies: Resisting the Domination of Global Capitalism; Hawala; Islamic Banking. - Reclaiming History in Algeria: 'Berberism' and the FLNNarratives of Power; 6 Symbolic Forms of Resistance Art and Power; Art Speaks to Power; Posters and Graffiti; Palestinian Posters; Iranian Posters; Palestinian Graffiti; Visual Arts; Palestine; Algeria; Turkey; Lebanon; Iraq; Iran; The Internet and the Art of Resistance; The Power of Art; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; 1. State Capture and Violent Resistance; 2. Contesting Public Space: Resistance as the Denial of Authority; 3. Imposition and Resistance in Economic Life; 4. Body Politics: Women's Rights and Women's Resistance. - Resisting the Conditions of Economic Life4 Body Politics Women's Rights and Women's Resistance; Fighting for Rights; Gender Status and Opposing Ideas of Resistance; Morocco: The Struggle for Women's Rights; Women's Resistance within National Resistance; Iran: Women and the Islamic Republic; Palestinian Women's Struggles for Liberation; Sexuality and Violence: The Limits of Resistance; 'Honour Killing'; Sites and Strategies of Resistance; 5 History Wars Contesting the Past, Reclaiming the Future; War Stories; Israeli 'Critical Sociologists' and 'New Historians' - and Their Critics. - Syria: Islamist Insurgency, 1978-1982Syria:; Kurdish Rebellion in Iraq (1968-1991); Libya: From Demonstration to Armed Uprising; Violence and Its Shadow; 2 Contesting Public Space Resistance as the Denial of Authority; Resistance through Nonviolence; The Occupation of Public Space: The Resistance of Presence; Intifadat al-safar in Iraq (1977); Iran: From Demonstration to Revolution (1978); Iran: The Limits of Mass Protest (2009); Egypt: The Acceleration of Civil Resistance (2011); Bahrain: Family, Sect and Power; Public Defiance of Foreign Occupation: Signalling Resistance. - This book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression and political resistance.
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