Search Results for North Africa

... Emirates - ture, on fundamentalism - including fundamentalism women have yet to receive political rights. Women’s and women’s rights - has emerged mainly in connec- second-class citizenship has long been institutional- tion with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In ized, but as this paper...

...Paul Kingston Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa Beinin Joel Vairel Frederic ., eds. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xiv + 308 pp., $80.00 (cloth) , $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Anne-Marie McManus; Nancy Y. Reynolds Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) today is an epicenter for the theorization of absence. Scholars, in efforts to counter the politics that have erased and continue to erase humans and places from the region, frequently assert the microdynamics...

...Zakia Salime Abstract This essay discusses the discourse of race and racism as a “new zone” of theory grounded in orientalist claims about discovery and saving. It shows how this discourse centers slavery as an ultimate lens through which to understand the race question in the North Africa...

...Siba Grovogui As both a response and a complement to Partha Chatterjee's observations on modern Indian history, this essay speaks to the heterogeneity of cosmopolitanism and its trajectories. It focuses specifically on political and cultural experiments in West and North Africa that over time...

... in North Africa. From a direct form of racialized violence leaving Muslim Tunisians on the low end of the colonial social ladder of worth, salaries, and the right to life, one moved to a more symbolic form of violence, with the south of the country quasi-racialized as less valuable than the urban coastal...

... of the English community presented by the renegade's translocation of political, cultural and religious loyalties. It is therefore problematic to uncritically read these narratives as accurate depictions of the reality of conversion in North Africa as some previous studies have done: other contextual evidence...

...Rabab El-Mahdi Abstract This article argues that the interplay between a limited disciplinary research agenda in political science and an overemphasis on quantitative methods has left a whole range of important untapped questions regarding the Middle East and North Africa. This is most obvious...

... consequential implications of the “decolonizing” move: how it broadens our thinking about ethics. Animated by the particular experiences and concerns of this interdisciplinary group of what Amahl Bishara characterizes as “region-related” scholars of the Middle East and North Africa, the focus turned from...

... historiographical paradigm in Middle East and North Africa scholarship, which is based on the myth that Italian Fascism did not encompass acts of genocide and mass murder and was, therefore, less evil than the fascism practiced under the German Nazi regime. It focuses on the problems of cover-up and the persistence...

...Lila Abu-Lughod Abstract Sampling from the “Indigenous turn” in anthropology, this article asks what might be relevant for our thinking about the politics and ethics of social research practices in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region from the decolonizing efforts of those working in New...

...Jamie Cross The export processing or free trade zones that have been built since the 1960s across Central America and the Caribbean, north Africa and the Gulf states, and South and Southeast Asia have emerged as uniquely charged objects of anticipation—hope, conviction, and anxiety—about...

...John Chalcraft Abstract This article outlines a theoretical framework for researching popular politics in the Middle East and North Africa. It sketches a Gramscian alternative to existing approaches in materialist Marxism, cultural studies, and social movement studies. It also aims to think...

... noting the vibrancy of civil society, Zayani’s article questions its ability to affect the existing political culture of the region. It argues that the proclivity of civil society activism and associational life to generate political change in the Middle East and North Africa is limited. This is so...

... .” Annales: Economies, Sociétés, Civilisation, Année 1980 6 ( 1980 ): 580 – 97 . Clancy-Smith Julia . Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . El Hamel Chouki . Black Morocco...

.... Just as scholars are approaching North Africa as a node, a geographical and analytical bridge that connected (and still connects) deeply intertwined worlds farther south and across the surrounding oceans and seas, the Arabian Peninsula, too, has enabled us to trace multi-nodal networks and linkages...

... studies have viewed the impact of voiceless and a view of Islam as a backward faith Islam and colonization on Muslim women in that encompasses all aspects of Muslim life.5 But Africa. Next, through case studies from North traces of the victimization of Muslim women are Africa, Nigeria, and Sudan...

... Africa is routinely included in narratives of the rise of Ottoman power, these provinces seem to fade into obscurity after the “golden age” of the corsair frontier in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Correspondingly, North Africa rarely features in discussions of the often-­fraught...

... political strategies towards solv- plosive, lacking political and socio-economic stabil- ing conflicts in the Middle East/North Africa ity. Regime change cannot be effective without a (MENA) region, and the rest of the world. long-term strategy of national solidarity, democrati- The appeal...

... developing and elusive global condition. As I am writing this introduction, we are approaching the first anniversary of the mass x-1629007 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Women’s presence in the street politics...