Peripheral visions : publics, power, and performance in Yemen
The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak
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9780226877921, 9786612240102, 9781282240100, 0226877922, 6612240105, 1282240102
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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
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English
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