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Peripheral Visions

Release on 2009-08-012009-08-01 by Lisa Wedeen
Peripheral Visions

Author: Lisa Wedeen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226877921

Category: Social Science

Page: 320

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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 states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the ordinary activities of everyday life. Yemenis, for example, regularly gather to chew qat, a leafy drug similar to caffeine, as they engage in wide-ranging and sometimes influential public discussions of even the most divisive political and social issues. These lively debates exemplify Wedeen’s contention that democratic, national, and pious solidarities work as ongoing, performative practices that enact and reproduce a citizenry’s shared points of reference. Ultimately, her skillful evocations of such practices shift attention away from a narrow focus on government institutions and electoral competition and toward the substantive experience of participatory politics.
Social Science
Peripheral Visions
Language: en
Pages: 320

Peripheral Visions

Authors: Lisa Wedeen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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
Peripheral Visions
Language: en
Pages: 254

Peripheral Visions

Authors: Paul Kane
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11 - Publisher: Creative Guy Publishing

This latest collection of horror from Britain's Paul Kane has been eagerly anticipated by his fans, and coincides with the release of his novel "The Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowhead" in Oct/Nov 2008. Mr Kane's work has been praised by everyone from Peter Straub to Clive Barker to Gary Braunbeck, and this
Peripheral Visions/global Sounds
Language: en
Pages: 342

Peripheral Visions/global Sounds

Authors: José F. Colmeiro
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

Galician culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth since the re-establishment of democracy and the development of its political autonomy. Audio/visual production (music and cinema in particular) has provided some of the privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed, and consumed at home and
Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds
Language: en
Pages: 342

Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds

Authors: José Colmeiro
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-23 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic
Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present
Language: en
Pages: 279

Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present

Authors: Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit, Astrid Van Weyenberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-09 - Publisher: BRILL

Peripheral Visions sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized. Focusing on space, mobility and aesthetics, it argues that peripheries require more visibility, and are invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present.

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