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  • Istanbul

    Between the Global and the Local

    by Ayfer Bartu, Tanil Bora, Sema Erder, Ayse Oncu, Martin Stokes, Jenny White, Yael Navaro-Yasin ...
    Series series World Social Change
    This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyond these clichés lies a complex reality as Istanbulites simultaneously try to accommodate, understand, challenge, and shape the sweeping transformations ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Revolution without Revolutionaries

    Making Sense of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat—whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring—uncovers ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • A Society of Young Women

    Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia

    by Amelie Le Renard ...
    The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. In recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society is male society. Little consideration has been given to the rapidly evolving activities within women's ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    by Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Orienting Istanbul

    Cultural Capital of Europe?

    Edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Modern Middle East

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Ilan Pappé ...
    This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernising approaches, Ilan Pappé is concerned with the ideological question of whom we investigate in the past rather than how we ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Insecure City

    Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut

    by Kristin V. Monroe ...
    Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent political and economic landscape. Providing a picture of what ordinary life is like for urban dwellers surviving sectarian violence, The Insecure City captures the day-to-day experiences of citizens of Beirut ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey

    Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue

    Edited by Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms. The authors explore the rationales of the main political actors in Turkey in order to increase our understanding of the ongoing debates over the secularist character of the Turkish Republic and over Turkey’s longstanding ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    by Anouk de Koning ...
    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nostalgia for the Modern

    State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

    by Esra Özyürek, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the other. While the Turkish government had long limited Islam—the religion of the overwhelming majority of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Arab Uprisings Explained

    New Contentious Politics in the Middle East

    Edited by Marc Lynch ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways to survive? And what have been the lasting results of the contentious politics of 2011 and 2012? The ... Read more

    $30.59 USD