Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa

The 'Dangerous Classes' Since 1800

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78831-371-1 (ISBN)

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The concept of the ‘dangerous classes’ was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. This included beggars and vagrants, swindlers, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and pimps, ex-soldiers, ex-prisoners, tricksters, drug-dealers, the unemployed or unemployable, indeed every type of the criminal and marginal.

This book examines the ‘dangerous classes’ in the Middle East and North Africa, their lives and the strategies they used to avoid, evade, cheat, placate or, occasionally, resist, the authorities. Chapters cover the narratives of their lives; their relationship with ‘respectable’ society; their political inclinations and their role in shaping systems and institutions of
discipline and control and their representation in literature and in popular culture. The book demonstrates the liminality of the ‘dangerous classes’ and their capacity for re-invention. It also indicates the sharpening relevance of the concept to a Middle East and North Africa now in the grip of an almost permanent sense of crisis, its younger generations crippled by a pervasive sense of hopelessness, prone to petty crime and vulnerable to induction as foot soldiers into drug and people smuggling, petty gangsterism and jihadism.

Stephanie Cronin is Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Research Fellow at St Antony’s College and a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. She is the author of seven books, including Armies and State-building in the Modern Middle East: Politics, Nationalism and Military Reform (I. B. Tauris, 2014) and The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1910-1926 (I. B. Tauris, 1997).

Acknowledgements
Note on transliteration

The Dangerous Classes in the Middle East and North Africa
Stephanie Cronin, University of Oxford, UK

Part One: Dangerous Women

Disciplining Sex Work in Colonial Cairo
Francesca Biancani, Bologna University, Italy

Governing Prostitutes with Fear and Compassion: The Red-Light District of Tehran, 1922-1970
Jairan Gahan, University of Toronto, Canada

“Disorderly Women” and the Politics of Urban Space in Early 20th Century Istanbul (1900-1914)
Müge Özbek, Koç University, Turkey

Disreputable by Definition: Respectability and Theft by Poor Women in Urban Interwar Egypt
Hanan Hammad, Texas Christian University, USA

Part Two: Banditry and Crime

Noble Robbers, avengers and entrepreneurs: Eric Hobsbawm and banditry in Iran, the Middle East and North Africa
Stephanie Cronin, University of Oxford, UK

Rural Banditry in Colonial Algeria, 1871-1914
Antonin Plarier, Panthéon Sorbonne University, France

A State of Tribal Lawlessness? Rural and Urban Crime in Fars Province, 1910-15
Mattin Biglari, SOAS, University of London, UK

Rural Crimes As Everyday Politics of Peasants: Tax Delinquency, Smuggling, Theft and Banditry in Modern Turkey
Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul University, Turkey

Part Three: Dangerous Streets:

Urban food riots in late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham as a ‘repertoire of contention’
Till Grallert, Orient-Institut Beirut of the Max Weber Foundation, Lebanon

The Dangerous Classes and the 1953 Coup in Iran: On the Decline of lutigari Masculinities
Olmo Gölz, University of Freiburg, Germany

The ‘Virtual Poor’ in Iran: Dangerous classes and Homeless Life in Capitalist Times
Maziyar Ghiabi, University of Oxford, UK

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.12.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	1-78831-371-2 / 1788313712
ISBN-13	978-1-78831-371-1 / 9781788313711
Zustand	Neuware