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  • Gender Politics In Sudan

    Islamism, Socialism, And The State

    by Sondra Hale ...
    Focusing on the relationship between gender and the state in the construction national identity politics in twentieth-century northern Sudan, the author investigates the mechanisms that the state and political and religious interest groups employ for achieving political and cultural hegemony. Hale argues that such a process involves the transformation of culture through the involvement of women in ... Read more

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  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

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  • Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu

    Capturing Cultural Capital

    Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu: Capturing Cultural Capital propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argues for their place in world intellectual history. The contributors posit that Sudan is currently in its most uncertain and perhaps most generative period, as the unrest, conflicts, and upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries threw Sudanese ... Read more

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  • Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan

    Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies

    This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Life

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

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    The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores ... Read more

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  • Women in the Middle East and North Africa

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