Uzi Rabi (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190264925
- eISBN:
- 9780190638573
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190264925.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which to analyse the Middle East on a state-by-state ...
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At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which to analyse the Middle East on a state-by-state basis. Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East looks beyond the dichotomy between tribe and state. Its central theme is the role of tribes and tribalism in state politics, society, and identity, as demonstrated in case studies from the Arab East (mashriq). The book is a comparative endeavor that seeks to address questions related to the interplay between tribal organisations and state institutions, tribal solidarity and nationalism, and tribal power and the centralised government. It further discusses the impact and role of tribal polities in modern states in times of regional and national turmoil.Less
At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which to analyse the Middle East on a state-by-state basis. Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East looks beyond the dichotomy between tribe and state. Its central theme is the role of tribes and tribalism in state politics, society, and identity, as demonstrated in case studies from the Arab East (mashriq). The book is a comparative endeavor that seeks to address questions related to the interplay between tribal organisations and state institutions, tribal solidarity and nationalism, and tribal power and the centralised government. It further discusses the impact and role of tribal polities in modern states in times of regional and national turmoil.
Sterling Stuckey
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199931675
- eISBN:
- 9780199356027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931675.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century, Cultural History
This chapter lays out the organizing principle of slave culture in North America and underscores the centrality of the ancestral past to the African in America. The most important African ritual in ...
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This chapter lays out the organizing principle of slave culture in North America and underscores the centrality of the ancestral past to the African in America. The most important African ritual in slavery, the Ring Shout, is revealed in some detail. With the ring a symbol of unity and counter-clockwise dance and rhythm consciousness as common starting points, different ethnic groups on plantations of the South began moving toward unity almost before being aware of it. Children were especially drawn to the ring, helping to transmit the Shout over generations. African practices and values are related to specific academic disciplines to make slave behavior comprehensible. Slave art in the form of tales, music and dance are in dispensable to the analysis that establishes far more similarities between slave culture in the North and south than previously thought.Less
This chapter lays out the organizing principle of slave culture in North America and underscores the centrality of the ancestral past to the African in America. The most important African ritual in slavery, the Ring Shout, is revealed in some detail. With the ring a symbol of unity and counter-clockwise dance and rhythm consciousness as common starting points, different ethnic groups on plantations of the South began moving toward unity almost before being aware of it. Children were especially drawn to the ring, helping to transmit the Shout over generations. African practices and values are related to specific academic disciplines to make slave behavior comprehensible. Slave art in the form of tales, music and dance are in dispensable to the analysis that establishes far more similarities between slave culture in the North and south than previously thought.
Keith Daniel Roberts
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781786940100
- eISBN:
- 9781786944276
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940100.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Building on the previous section, chapter four challenges, on a broader basis, the orthodox explanation for the decline of sectarianism. It has often been repeated that post-war slum clearance, which ...
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Building on the previous section, chapter four challenges, on a broader basis, the orthodox explanation for the decline of sectarianism. It has often been repeated that post-war slum clearance, which some perceived to be a deliberate policy to break down sectarianism (a point made by the Orange Institution), was the main causal factor behind the derailment of sectarian tensions, the author cites several examples of this. The sectarian geography of Liverpool is outlined, before validity of the slum clearance hypothesis is assessed. The question begged is whether sectarianism would have continued to flourish in Liverpool had a slum clearance programme not taken place. This chapter takes a sceptical view.Less
Building on the previous section, chapter four challenges, on a broader basis, the orthodox explanation for the decline of sectarianism. It has often been repeated that post-war slum clearance, which some perceived to be a deliberate policy to break down sectarianism (a point made by the Orange Institution), was the main causal factor behind the derailment of sectarian tensions, the author cites several examples of this. The sectarian geography of Liverpool is outlined, before validity of the slum clearance hypothesis is assessed. The question begged is whether sectarianism would have continued to flourish in Liverpool had a slum clearance programme not taken place. This chapter takes a sceptical view.
Thomas Hüsken
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190864545
- eISBN:
- 9780190943271
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190864545.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
This chapter deals with political, social, economic and cultural patterns that are involved in the development of political Islam and Islamism among the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt ...
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This chapter deals with political, social, economic and cultural patterns that are involved in the development of political Islam and Islamism among the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. It argues that the rise of political Islam and jihadism among the Awlad ‘Ali is not a result of their form of social organization as a tribal confederation but related to broader developments in the Middle East. Although it is true that there are jihadist networks within tribes in a number of societies in the Middle East, and that some factions of certain tribes have forged political and military alliances with jihadist movements, the same could be said about any other social group, class or milieu in the Arab Middle East. Instead, the rise of Islamism is presented as part of the competitive character of a heterarchichal order in the borderland.Less
This chapter deals with political, social, economic and cultural patterns that are involved in the development of political Islam and Islamism among the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. It argues that the rise of political Islam and jihadism among the Awlad ‘Ali is not a result of their form of social organization as a tribal confederation but related to broader developments in the Middle East. Although it is true that there are jihadist networks within tribes in a number of societies in the Middle East, and that some factions of certain tribes have forged political and military alliances with jihadist movements, the same could be said about any other social group, class or milieu in the Arab Middle East. Instead, the rise of Islamism is presented as part of the competitive character of a heterarchichal order in the borderland.
