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Author Wedeen, Lisa.

Title Peripheral visions [electronic resource] : publics, power, and performance in Yemen / Lisa Wedeen.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 300 p. : ill.
Series Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-290) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Imagining unity -- Seeing like a citizen, acting like a state -- The politics of deliberation: q?t chews as public spheres -- Practicing piety, summoning groups: disorder as control -- Piety in time: contemporary islamic movements in national and transnational contexts -- Conclusion -- Politics as performative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Political participation -- Yemen (Republic)
Nationalism -- Yemen (Republic)
Yemen (Republic) -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226877907 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226877914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226877906 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226877914 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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