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The emerging literature on the so-called 'Arab Spring' has largely
focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power
centres. In order to reach a more diversified and inner
understanding of the 'Arab Spring', this edited book examines how
peripheries have reacted and contributed to the historical dynamics
at work in the Middle East and North Africa. It rejects the idea
that the 'Arab Spring' is a unitary process and shows that it
consists of diverse Springs which differed in terms of opportunity
structure, strategies of a variance of actors, and outcomes. This
book looks at geographical, religious, gender and ethnical
peripheries, conceptualizing periphery as a dynamic structure which
can expand and contract. It shows that the seeds for changing the
face of politics and polities are within peripheries themselves.
Focusing on the voices of peripheries can therefore be a powerful
tool to 'de-simplify' the reading of the Arab Spring and to reshape
the paradigmatic schemes through which to look at this part of the
world. This book was published as a special issue of Mediterranean
Politics.
The emerging literature on the so-called 'Arab Spring' has largely
focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power
centres. In order to reach a more diversified and inner
understanding of the 'Arab Spring', this edited book examines how
peripheries have reacted and contributed to the historical dynamics
at work in the Middle East and North Africa. It rejects the idea
that the 'Arab Spring' is a unitary process and shows that it
consists of diverse Springs which differed in terms of opportunity
structure, strategies of a variance of actors, and outcomes. This
book looks at geographical, religious, gender and ethnical
peripheries, conceptualizing periphery as a dynamic structure which
can expand and contract. It shows that the seeds for changing the
face of politics and polities are within peripheries themselves.
Focusing on the voices of peripheries can therefore be a powerful
tool to 'de-simplify' the reading of the Arab Spring and to reshape
the paradigmatic schemes through which to look at this part of the
world. This book was published as a special issue of Mediterranean
Politics.
This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East - based on
research in 19 archives and numerous languages - shows the
transition from an internal history characterised by local
realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where
identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history
largely imagined and imposed by external actors. This version of
history is distinguished by the politicisation of these identities
with the aim of better grasping and, ultimately, controlling them.
The author shows - mainly through a study of key moments, including
the germs of competing ethno-religious visions in the 1830s, the
Ottoman Tanzimat, the introduction of the Millet system, the
Balfour Declaration, post-World War One treaties, and the creation
of borders - how the once heterogeneous identities of Middle
Eastern peoples were sealed into a standardised and uniform version
that persists to this day.
The Palestine Exploration Fund, established in 1865, is the oldest
organization created specifically for the study of the Levant. It
helped to spur evangelical tourism to the region in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries which in turn generated a huge array of
literature that presented Palestine as a 'Holy Land', in which
local populations were often portrayed as a simple appendix to
well-known Biblical scenarios. In the first book focused on modern
and contemporary Palestine to provide a top-down and a bottom-up
perspective on the process of simplification of the region and its
inhabitants under British influence, Lorenzo Kamel offers a
comprehensive outlook based on primary sources from 17 archives
that spans a variety of cultural and social boundaries, including
local identities, land tenure, toponymy, religious and political
charges, institutions and borders. By observing the historical
dynamics through which a fluid region composed by different
cultures and societies has been simplified, the author explores how
perceptions of Palestine have been affected today.WINNER OF THE
PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2016
The Palestine Exploration Fund, established in 1865, is the oldest
organization created specifically for the study of the Levant. It
helped to spur evangelical tourism to the region in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries which in turn generated a huge array of
literature that presented Palestine as a 'Holy Land', in which
local populations were often portrayed as a simple appendix to
well-known Biblical scenarios. In the first book focused on modern
and contemporary Palestine to provide a top-down and a bottom-up
perspective on the process of simplification of the region and its
inhabitants under British influence, Lorenzo Kamel offers a
comprehensive outlook based on primary sources from 17 archives
that spans a variety of cultural and social boundaries, including
local identities, land tenure, toponymy, religious and political
charges, institutions and borders. By observing the historical
dynamics through which a fluid region composed by different
cultures and societies has been simplified, the author explores how
perceptions of Palestine have been affected today.WINNER OF THE
PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2016
Cultural heritage and illicit trafficking in the Middle East are
two key topics of our time. The book sheds light on both aspects,
and identifies the need to democratize cultural heritage, by giving
greater control to local communities. It also investigates the link
between local hotbeds of conflict and violence in countries such as
Syria and Iraq, as well as war economics, transnational criminal
networks and the politics of deliberate destruction and theft of
cultural heritage. Finally, the chapters analyze the impact of
non-violent and violent non-state actors, fragile states, forced
migration, environmental degradation, as well as how local and
international institutions have reacted to the dramatic events
which the region and its inhabitants have experienced in recent
years
This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East - based on
research in 19 archives and numerous languages - shows the
transition from an internal history characterised by local
realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where
identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history
largely imagined and imposed by external actors. The author
demonstrates how the once-heterogeneous identities of Middle
Eastern peoples were sealed into a standardised and uniform version
that persists to this day. He also sheds light on the efforts that
peoples in the region - in the context of a new process of
homogenisation of diversities - are exerting in order to get back
into history, regaining possession of their multifaceted pasts.
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