The Power and the People

Informationen zum Autor Charles Tripp is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge Middle East Studies Series and author of A History of Iraq (3rd edition, 2007) and Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (2006). Klappentext This book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression and political resistance. 'This spirited account carries conviction and by telling it Tripp has made an important contribution in supplementing the record of national liberation struggles.' Morning Star Zusammenfassung Drawing on recent dramatic developments in the Middle East and parallel moments in its modern history! this book examines how people have united to unseat their oppressors. This brilliant yet unsettling book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation! oppression and political resistance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. State capture and violent resistance; 2. Contesting public space: resistance as the denial of authority; 3. Imposition and resistance in economic life; 4. Body politics: women's rights and women's resistance; 5. History wars: contesting the past, reclaiming the future; 6. Symbolic forms of resistance: art and power.

Klappentext
This book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression and political resistance.

Zusammenfassung
Drawing on recent dramatic developments in the Middle East and parallel moments in its modern history, this book examines how people have united to unseat their oppressors. This brilliant yet unsettling book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression and political resistance.

Inhalt
1. State capture and violent resistance; 2. Contesting public space: resistance as the denial of authority; 3. Imposition and resistance in economic life; 4. Body politics: women's rights and women's resistance; 5. History wars: contesting the past, reclaiming the future; 6. Symbolic forms of resistance: art and power.

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