LEADER 04115nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910778066003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612240102 010 $a1-282-24010-2 010 $a0-226-87792-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226877921 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773776 035 $a(EBL)448592 035 $a(OCoLC)435911844 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000219964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186941 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000219964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137250 035 $a(PQKB)10064413 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448592 035 $a(DE-B1597)524712 035 $a(OCoLC)1027494462 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226877921 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10317909 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL224010 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773776 100 $a20080204d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPeripheral visions$b[electronic resource] $epublics, power, and performance in Yemen /$fLisa Wedeen 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (324 p.) 225 1 $aChicago studies in practices of meaning 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-87790-6 311 $a0-226-87791-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-290) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThe government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the ordinary activities of everyday life. Yemenis, for example, regularly gather to chew qat, a leafy drug similar to caffeine, as they engage in wide-ranging and sometimes influential public discussions of even the most divisive political and social issues. These lively debates exemplify Wedeen's contention that democratic, national, and pious solidarities work as ongoing, performative practices that enact and reproduce a citizenry's shared points of reference. Ultimately, her skillful evocations of such practices shift attention away from a narrow focus on government institutions and electoral competition and toward the substantive experience of participatory politics. 410 0$aChicago studies in practices of meaning. 606 $aPolitical participation$zYemen (Republic) 606 $aNationalism$zYemen (Republic) 607 $aYemen (Republic)$xPolitics and government 610 $ayemen, political science, politics, government, governing, violence, nation state, national power, solidarity, interviews, social issues, participatory, participation, republic, nationalism, unity, deliberation, transnational, control, south arabia, asia, middle east, crisis, order, performance, public gatherings, identity, structures, citizenship, citizenry. 615 0$aPolitical participation 615 0$aNationalism 676 $a320.9533 700 $aWedeen$b Lisa$0720317 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778066003321 996 $aPeripheral visions$93762699 997 $aUNINA