Local politics and contemporary transformations in the Arab world : governance beyond the centre /
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. |
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| Description: | xv, 242 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Governance and limited statehood series Governance and limited statehood series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9913292 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Transliteration
- 1. Analyzing Politics Beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation
- Part I. Theorizing (Local) Politics-Conceptual Contributions
- 2. Contemporary Governscapes: Sovereign Practice and Hybrid Orders Beyond the Center
- 3. The Bureaucratic Mode of Governance and Practical Norms in West Africa and Beyond
- 4. Beyond the 'Pragmatism-Radicalism Dialectic' in the Study of Local Politics: Privatizing Locality, Professionalizing Community, and Vulgarizing Scale in Revolutionary Cairo
- 5. The Inward Turn and Its Vicissitudes: Culture, Society, and Politics in Post-1967 Arab Leftist Critiques
- Part II. Localizing Theory-Case Studies
- 6. Bringing the Local Back In: Local Politics Between Informatization and Mobilization in an Age of Transformation in Egypt
- 7. Negotiating (Informal) Institutional Change: Understanding Local Politics in Jordan
- 8. Morocco Between Decentralization and Recentralization: Encountering the State in the 'Useless Morocco'
- 9. Revisiting Politics in Spaces 'Beyond the Center': The Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
- 10. Political Participation in Algeria Beyond the Polling Stations: Insights from Tizi-Ouzou
- 11. Tribes, Revolution, and Political Culture in the Cyrenaica Region of Libya
- 12. Conclusion
- Index
