Altered States
eBook - ePub

Altered States

The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Altered States

The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World

About this book

Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State, " this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume.

Altered States views the state less as a matter of people and institutions and more as sets of practices, regimes of truth, and capabilities of power, and the effects they have on those under their control. Through analysing case studies - including Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, UAE, Rojova, and the Islamic State - the concept of the state is applied and questioned. This book examines the roots of policies that led to the uprisings, focusing on how the "authoritarian bargain", which helped define Arab politics, broke down with the rise of neoliberalism. It also assesses how boundaries between state and society have been redrawn, as various dynamics have brought state forces into more open conflict with citizens and each other.

The rapid pace of change in the Arab world has necessitated constant modification of themes and theoretical lens of analysis. This book will, therefore, be of interest to practitioners, graduate students and academics of the Arab world, statehood, and political science.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Introduction: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World since 2010
  9. 1 State-crafting and Modes of Governance in the United Arab Emirates
  10. 2 Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon
  11. 3 Archiving in an Age of (Counter)Revolutions
  12. 4 Class Power, the State and Contentious Politics in the Age of Globalization: The Case of Egypt
  13. 5 Same Different? A Comparative Study of Kurdish-Led Rojava and Opposition-Held Syria
  14. 6 Postcolonial State-ness and the Case of Rawabi
  15. 7 Lebanon’s Wadi Khaled and the Challenge of Sovereignty
  16. 8 Egyptian State and Culture
  17. 9 How Diplomatic Practices Make the Fuzzy State of Palestine Visible
  18. 10 Daesh and the “Effect of the State”
  19. 11 Conclusion: The Westphalian State Effect
  20. Index