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  • Violence in the Postcolony

    Entangled Histories of Africa

    by Abikal Borah, Toyin Falola, Jill E. Kelly, Amir Idris, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Busani Mpofu, Benjamin Claude Brower, Daniel J. Hoffman, Barira Mohammed0, Nimi Wariboko1, Christopher P. Davey2, Sepetla Molapo3, Ogenga Otunnu4, Meghan Gorman-DaRif5 ...
    Where present-day media has depicted violent conditions in Africa as a spectacle born out of political instability, postcolonial scholars have discussed violence as a dialectic of law and disorder, a regime structured by the biopolitical state, or as a performative tool used to challenge ethical and political norms. While the latter approaches rely on historical trajectories of violence, popular ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Race, Ethnicity, and Violence in South Sudan

    by Amir Idris ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to understand how and why “liberators” of South Sudan have become perpetrators of ethnically driven violence. How and why did violence happen immediately after independence in South Sudan?South Sudan slid into civil war in December 2013, just two years after winning its hard-won independence. A great deal has been written about the conflict and violence of this period, ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • South Sudan

    Post-Independence Dilemmas

    Edited by Amir Idris ...
    Series series African Governance
    South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas is an interdisciplinary collection of essays which engages with the failure of the newest African State to transition itself successfully to a state and nation after its independence in July 2011.The contributors explore the prospects for new modes of politics capable of simultaneously healing and reconciling the divided communities while moving the country ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World

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    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
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  • The Kurdish Women's Movement

    History, Theory, Practice

    by Dilar Dirik ...
    'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha WaliaThe Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy and women's liberation. But while striking images ... Read more

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  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

    by Philip Oldenburg ...
    The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not. Focusing on the specificities and the nuances of each state system, the author examines in ... Read more

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  • Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey

    by M. Hakan Yavuz ...
    Series Book 28 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    In 2002 the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in Turkey. Since then it has shied away from a hard-line ideological stance in favour of a more conservative and democratic approach. In this book, M. Hakan Yavuz negotiates this ambivalence asking whether it is possible for a political party with a deeply religious ideology to liberalise and entertain democracy or whether, as ... Read more

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  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    by Asef Bayat ...
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  • Terrifying Muslims

    Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

    by Junaid Rana ...
    Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of ... Read more

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  • Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey

    Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue

    Edited by Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms. The authors explore the rationales of the main political actors in Turkey in order to increase our understanding of the ongoing debates over the secularist character of the Turkish Republic and over Turkey’s longstanding ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Womanhood

    Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt

    by Laura Bier ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, ... Read more

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  • Terror and Territory

    The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Today's global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding of the concept of territory, Stuart Elden shows how the contemporary "war on terror" is ... Read more

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