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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827126903321

Titolo

Democratic transition in the Middle East : unmaking power / / edited by Larbi Sadiki, Heiko Wimmen and Layla Al-Zubaidi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-18166-0

0-203-08285-0

1-283-87151-3

1-136-18167-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Al-ZubaidiLayla

SadikiLarbi

WimmenHeiko

Disciplina

320.956

Soggetti

Democratization - Middle East

Middle East Politics and government 1979-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The void of power and the power of the void: Arab societies' negotiation of democratic faragh -- Citizens of the void: power-sharing and civic political action in Lebanon -- Trans-sectarian moral protest against occupation: a case study of Iraq -- The fragmentation of Shaykh-Murid relationships: power voids and democratization of religious Sufi authority in Bahrain -- Cyberspace and the changing face of protest and public culture in Egypt -- "These are liberated territories": everyday resistance in Egypt: dismantling state power, experimenting with alternatives and the growing movement from 2000 to 2010 -- Void vs. presence: the in-between-ness of state and society in Yemen -- Economic transformation and diffusion of authoritarian power in Syria.

Sommario/riassunto

Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the first time. This edited volume seeks to unpack



the state of the democratic void in three interrelated fields: democracy, legitimacy and social relations. In doing so, the conventional treatment of democratization as a linear, formal, systemic and systematic process is challenged and the p