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Analyzing Politics Beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation

Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World: Governance Beyond the Center

Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World: Governance Beyond the Center

Harders, Cilja, Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane – 2013

This book is the outcome of the authors’ workshop ‘Governance beyond the Center: Informality, Institutions, and Contested Power Structures in Authoritarian Contexts’ that took place in Berlin at the beginning of 2012. Interested in current transformations challenging the Arab world, the workshop brought together international scholars with various disciplinary backgrounds to discuss preliminary assessments of transformations in the Middle East and conceptual frameworks of political and social analysis. The empirical observation that the current events in the Middle East originated in places far from national capitals—as was the case in Tunisia, Syria, and Libya—encouraged us to analyze areas and institutions ‘where the presence of the state is limited, highly contested or intertwined with forms of power and governance that are at odds with the Weberian ideals of state and bureaucracy’ (see Stepputat in this volume, p. 25). The contributions to this volume discuss the question of how local institutions, agents, and their practices contest and shape the authoritarian state and its centrally institutionalized modes of governance. Building on this, our second leading question inquires how and why these processes transform or perpetuate authoritarian rule.

Titel
Analyzing Politics Beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Ort
Basingstoke
Schlagwörter
MENA – Region, Autoritarismus, Lokale Akteure, Community Based Organizations (CBO), Teilprojekt B6
Datum
2013
Kennung
ISBN 978-1137338686
Erschienen in
Governance and Limited Statehood Series
Zitierweise
Hoffmann, Anja; Bouziane, Malika; Harders, Cilja 2013: Analyzing Politics beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation, in: Bouziane, Malika; Harders, Cilja; Hoffmann, Anja (ed.) 2013: Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, S. 3 - 21
Sprache
eng
Art
Text