Houses Built on Sand
Violence, Sectarianism and Revolution in the Middle East
Seiten
2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2646-7 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2646-7 (ISBN)
This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues that to understand the events of the uprisings we must look at relations between rulers and ruled along with the strategies used by regimes to exert sovereign power. -- .
The events of the Arab Uprisings posed an existential challenge to sovereign power across the Middle East. Whilst popular movements resulted in the toppling of authoritarian rule in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, other regimes were able to withstand these pressures. This book questions why some regimes fell whilst others were able to survive.
Drawing on the work of political theorists such as Agamben and Arendt, Mabon explores the ways in which sovereign power is contested, resulting in the fragmentation of political projects across the region. Combining an innovative theoretical approach with interviews with people across the region and beyond, Mabon paints a picture of Middle Eastern politics dominated by elites seeking to maintain power and wealth, seemingly at whatever cost. This, for Mabon, is a consequence of the emergence and development of particular visions of political projects that harness or marginalise identities, communities, ideologies and faiths as mechanisms designed to ensure their survival.
This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding why the uprisings took place, their geopolitical consequences, and why they are likely to happen again.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
The events of the Arab Uprisings posed an existential challenge to sovereign power across the Middle East. Whilst popular movements resulted in the toppling of authoritarian rule in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, other regimes were able to withstand these pressures. This book questions why some regimes fell whilst others were able to survive.
Drawing on the work of political theorists such as Agamben and Arendt, Mabon explores the ways in which sovereign power is contested, resulting in the fragmentation of political projects across the region. Combining an innovative theoretical approach with interviews with people across the region and beyond, Mabon paints a picture of Middle Eastern politics dominated by elites seeking to maintain power and wealth, seemingly at whatever cost. This, for Mabon, is a consequence of the emergence and development of particular visions of political projects that harness or marginalise identities, communities, ideologies and faiths as mechanisms designed to ensure their survival.
This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding why the uprisings took place, their geopolitical consequences, and why they are likely to happen again.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
Simon Mabon is Professor of International Politics at Lancaster University where he directs the Richardson Institute. He is also Director of SEPAD. -- .
Introduction
1 The Politics of Sovereignty and Space
2 Letters and Declarations
3 Ink on Paper
4 The dawla and the umma
5 Building Beirut, Transforming Jerusalem and Breaking Basra
6 The People Want the Fall of the Regime
7 The Regime Fights Back
8 Houses Built on Sand
Conclusions: The End of the Dream
Select bibliography -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 558 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-2646-X / 152612646X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-2646-7 / 9781526126467 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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