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Lisa Wedeen

Peripheral Visions

Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen

320 pages, 6 halftones, 4 maps  6 x 9  © 2008
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226877907   Published October 2008

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226877914   Published October 2008

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ISBN: 9780226877921

List of Maps
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
Chapter One
Imagining Unity
 
Chapter Two
Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State
 
Chapter Three
The Politics of Deliberation: Qat Chews as Public Spheres
 
Chapter Four
Practicing Piety, Summoning Groups: Disorder as Control
 
Chapter Five
Piety in Time: Contemporary Islamic Movements in National and Transnational Contexts
 
Conclusion
Politics as Performative
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects


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