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1 online resource (xv, 300 pages) : illustrations |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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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 |
| Summary |
The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Political participation -- Yemen (Republic)
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Nationalism -- Yemen (Republic)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Nationalism
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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Soziale Situation
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Politischer Wandel
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Gesellschaft
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Political participation -- Yemen (Republic)
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Nationalism -- Yemen (Republic)
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Nationalism -- Yemen.
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Yemen (Republic) -- Politics and government
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Yemen (Republic)
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Jemen
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Yemen (Republic) -- Politics and government.
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Yemen -- politik och förvaltning.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226877921 |
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0226877922 |
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9786612240102 |
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6612240105 |
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1282240102 |
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9781282240100 |
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