The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa. The first to focus on the oppressed and the excluded, and their differing strategies of survival, of negotiation, and of protest and resistance, the book covers: both major social classes and…mehr
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa. The first to focus on the oppressed and the excluded, and their differing strategies of survival, of negotiation, and of protest and resistance, the book covers: both major social classes and sectors the working class the peasantry the urban poor women marginal groups such as gypsies and slaves Based on perspectives drawn from the work of the great European social historians, and particularly inspired by Antonio Gramsci, the collection seeks to restore a sense of historical agency to subaltern classes in the region, and to uncover 'the politics of the people'.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stephanie Cronin is Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow at the University of Northampton. Her most recent book is Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941, also published by Routledge.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Stephanie Cronin Part 1: The Urban Crowd and Popular Protest 1. Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus James Grehan 2. Women and Popular Protest: Women's Demonstrations in Nineteenth Century Iran Vanessa Martin Part 2: Poor People's Politics 3. Popular Protest, the Market and the State in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt John Chalcraft 4. Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed in Post-Revolutionary Iran Asef Bayat 5. Transforming the City from Below: Shanty-Town Dwellers and the Fight for Electricity in Casablanca Lamia Zaki Part 3: Peasants and Nomads 6. Resisting the New State: The Rural Poor, Land and Modernity in Iran, 1921-1941 Stephanie Cronin Part 4: Marginals and Outcasts 7. Exploring the Margins of Ottoman Society: "Disorderly" Gypsies" Failk Celik 8. Emancipated Female Slaves in Algiers: Marriage, Property and Social Advancement in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Fatiha Loualich Part 5: European Subalterns 9. "Making It" in Pre-Colonial Tunis: Migration, Work and Poverty in a Mediterranean Port-City, c. 1815-1870 Julia Clancy-Smith 10. Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: Subalterns or Labour Aristocracy? Antony Gorman Part 6: Subalterns and National Movements 11. From National Heroes to National Villains: Bandits and the Formation of Modern Greece Gerassimos Karabelias 12. Seizing the Initiative, Regaining a Voice: The Al-Aqsa Intifada as a Strategy of the Marginalized Roger Heacock
Introduction Stephanie Cronin Part 1: The Urban Crowd and Popular Protest 1. Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus James Grehan 2. Women and Popular Protest: Women's Demonstrations in Nineteenth Century Iran Vanessa Martin Part 2: Poor People's Politics 3. Popular Protest, the Market and the State in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt John Chalcraft 4. Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed in Post-Revolutionary Iran Asef Bayat 5. Transforming the City from Below: Shanty-Town Dwellers and the Fight for Electricity in Casablanca Lamia Zaki Part 3: Peasants and Nomads 6. Resisting the New State: The Rural Poor, Land and Modernity in Iran, 1921-1941 Stephanie Cronin Part 4: Marginals and Outcasts 7. Exploring the Margins of Ottoman Society: "Disorderly" Gypsies" Failk Celik 8. Emancipated Female Slaves in Algiers: Marriage, Property and Social Advancement in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Fatiha Loualich Part 5: European Subalterns 9. "Making It" in Pre-Colonial Tunis: Migration, Work and Poverty in a Mediterranean Port-City, c. 1815-1870 Julia Clancy-Smith 10. Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: Subalterns or Labour Aristocracy? Antony Gorman Part 6: Subalterns and National Movements 11. From National Heroes to National Villains: Bandits and the Formation of Modern Greece Gerassimos Karabelias 12. Seizing the Initiative, Regaining a Voice: The Al-Aqsa Intifada as a Strategy of the Marginalized Roger Heacock
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