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  • Depois do 7 de Outubro

    Series Libro 9 - A Questão Judaica Contemporânea
    O livro se estrutura em cinco blocos de discussão correlacionados, com seus tópicos se entrelaçando em camadas num todo diverso e heterogêneo. No primeiro bloco, os autores partem de um plano geral e íntimo ao mesmo tempo, como agentes e expectadores de uma história que se desenrola no hoje, pondo a comunidade brasileira em perspectiva e analisando o conflito no Oriente Médio a partir dos grandes ... Leer más

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  • Governing Gaza

    Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–1967

    de Ilana Feldman ...
    Marred by political tumult and violent conflict since the early twentieth century, Gaza has been subject to a multiplicity of rulers. Still not part of a sovereign state, it would seem too exceptional to be a revealing site for a study of government. Ilana Feldman proves otherwise. She demonstrates that a focus on the Gaza Strip uncovers a great deal about how government actually works, not only ... Leer más

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  • Police Encounters

    Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule

    de Ilana Feldman ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Egypt came to govern Gaza as a result of a war, a failed effort to maintain Arab Palestine. Throughout the twenty years of its administration (1948–1967), Egyptian policing of Gaza concerned itself not only with crime and politics, but also with control of social and moral order. Through surveillance, interrogation, and a network of local informants, the police extended their reach across the ... Leer más

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  • Life Lived in Relief

    Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics

    de Ilana Feldman ...
    Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community’s engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future conditions. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic field research, Life Lived in Relief offers a ... Leer más

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  • In the Name of Humanity

    The Government of Threat and Care

    Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of “humanity.” The remarkable array of circumstances in which humanity is invoked testifies to the category’s universal purchase. Yet what exactly does it mean to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity? In this timely collection, leading anthropologists and cultural critics grapple with ... Leer más

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  • Egypt after Mubarak

    Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World

    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Egypt's autocratic regime is being weakened by economic crises, growing political opposition, and the pressures of globalization. Observers now wonder which way Egypt will go when the country's aging president, Husni Mubarak, passes from the scene: will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy? Or will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran? Egypt after Mubarak demonstrates that ... Leer más

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  • Arab Spring: The Making of the New Middle East

    de Hichem Karoui ...
    This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that ... Leer más

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  • A Third University Is Possible

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    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary schools in Kenya; and between the Department of Homeland Security and the University of ... Leer más

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  • Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey

    Series Libro 28 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    In 2002 the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in Turkey. Since then it has shied away from a hard-line ideological stance in favour of a more conservative and democratic approach. In this book, M. Hakan Yavuz negotiates this ambivalence asking whether it is possible for a political party with a deeply religious ideology to liberalise and entertain democracy or whether, as ... Leer más

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  • Critical Education in the New Information Age

    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Essays by some of the world's leading educators provide a revolutionary portrait of new ideas and developments in education that can influence the possibility of social and political change.The authors take into account such diverse terrain as feminism, ecology, media, and individual liberty in their pursuit of new ideas that can inform the fundamental practice of education and promote a more ... Leer más

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  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

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  • Counting Islam

    Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt

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    Series series Problems of International Politics
    Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in the political unsophistication of voters, the subordination of economic interests to spiritual ones, ... Leer más

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