Everyday Arab identity : the daily reproduction of the Arab world / / Christopher Phillips
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| Autore: |
Phillips Christopher, Ph. D.
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| Titolo: |
Everyday Arab identity : the daily reproduction of the Arab world / / Christopher Phillips
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.540917/4927 |
| Soggetto topico: | Arab nationalism |
| Arabism | |
| Arab nationalism - Syria | |
| Arab nationalism - Jordan | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Arab countries Politics and government 1945- Case studies |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Note on translation and transliteration; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Map of Syria and Jordan and the Levant; Introduction: Everyday Arabism; 1 Defining Arabism: contemporary Arab identity and the state; Arabism today: contested identity; Arabism and state nationalism; Everyday Arabism: theory and methodology; Conclusion; 2 Building Arabism: identity-building in Syria and Jordan; Building Syria and Jordan; Personality cults and identity-building; Second generation cults in Syria and Jordan; Conclusion |
| 3 National Arabism: flagging identity on state televisionTelevision in Syria and Jordan; A week of television; Conclusion; 4 Transnational Arabism: Arab satellite television's new discourse; The satellite television debate; New Arabism and satellite news; Arabism and satellite entertainment shows; Satellite sport and Arabism: a case study of Al-Jazeera's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games; Conclusion; 5 Receiving Arabism: everyday opinions from Syria and Jordan; Methodology; Arab, state and religious identity; Everyday personality cults; State television | |
| Transnational Arab satellite televisionConclusion; Conclusion: Arabism's future; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Whether through government propaganda or popular transnational satellite television channels, Arab citizens encounter a discourse that reinforces a sense of belonging to their own state and a broader Arab world on a daily basis. Looking through the lens of nationalism theory, this book examines how and why Arab identity continues to be reproduced in today's Middle East, and how that Arab identity interacts with strengthening ties to religion and the state.Drawing on case studies of two ideologically different Arab regimes, Syria and Jordan, Christopher Phillips explores both t |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Everyday Arab identity |
| ISBN: | 0-203-09674-6 |
| 1-283-84432-X | |
| 1-136-21961-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820070203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics