Format:
1 Online-Ressource (298 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781780322254
Content:
In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen were driven by a 'delayed defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment alike - that signifies no less than the end of Postcolonialism
Content:
Intro -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction | The Arab Spring: The End of Postcoloniality -- The Future is Here -- The Blossoming of the Arab Spring -- Overcoming the Politics of Despair -- The End of the 'Postcolonial' -- Delayed Defiance -- Back into the Force Field of History -- One | Decentering the World: How the Arab Spring Unfolded -- Remapping the World -- Uprisings versus Empire or versus Imperialism? -- Ethnos sous rature -- Two | Towards a Liberation Geography -- De-ethnicizing the Worlds -- Decolonizing Theory -- Nationalizing Geography -- Anthropology and Colonialism -- Alternative Maps of the World -- Three | A New Language of Revolt -- An Open-ended Revolt -- Neo-Orientalism? -- Towards a Hermeneutics of Public Space -- The World in Itself -- Knowledge of Unfolding Things -- The Revolting Orientals -- Variations on an Orientalist Theme -- Re/subjecting a Revolutionary Persona -- Four | Discovering a New World -- Things Fall Apart -- Tahrir Square -- Exposing Hypocrisies - Left and Right -- What's Good for the Goose -- Imagining a New World -- What Language, What World? -- Five | From the Green Movement to the Jasmine Revolution -- For the Left to be Right -- Illiberal Neoliberalism -- The Dialectics of Transnationalism -- Transcending Sectarianism: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide -- Six | The Center Cannot Hold -- Who is History's Master? -- The East is West, the West is East -- False Anxieties -- The Islamic Republic in Bahrain -- Decolonizing a World -- Seven | The End of Postcolonialism -- The Genealogy of an Argument -- What Does Post-ideological Mean? -- The Point of Ideological Meltdown -- Dismantling a Colonized Mind -- Societal Modernity and Aesthetic Reason -- Semiotic Intransigence -- Eight | Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational Revolutions -- Changing the Lyrics -- Race and Racism -- Gender
Content:
Class and Labor -- God is Great - So is Freedom -- Nine | Libya: The Crucible and the Politics of Space -- Selling the Sea to Stay in Power -- The Making of a Transnational Civil Rights Movement -- Ten | Delayed Defiance -- The Dialogism of Open-ended Revolt -- Indexical Utterances -- Vox Populi, Vox Dei -- Conclusion | The People Demand the Overthrow of the Regime -- Writing as an Act of Solidarity -- Open-ended Revolutions -- Dismantling the Regime of Knowledge -- Things Not Dreamt in Their Philosophy -- Re-Orienting the World -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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About the Author; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction | The Arab Spring: The End of Postcoloniality; The Future is Here; The Blossoming of the Arab Spring; Overcoming the Politics of Despair; The End of the 'Postcolonial'; Delayed Defiance; Back into the Force Field of History; One | Decentering the World: How the Arab Spring Unfolded; Remapping the World; Uprisings versus Empire or versus Imperialism?; Ethnos sous rature; Two | Towards a Liberation Geography; De-ethnicizing the Worlds; Decolonizing Theory; Nationalizing Geography; Anthropology and Colonialism
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Alternative Maps of the WorldThree | A New Language of Revolt; An Open-ended Revolt; Neo-Orientalism?; Towards a Hermeneutics of Public Space; The World in Itself; Knowledge of Unfolding Things; The Revolting Orientals; Variations on an Orientalist Theme; Re/subjecting a Revolutionary Persona; Four | Discovering a New World; Things Fall Apart; Tahrir Square; Exposing Hypocrisies - Left and Right; What's Good for the Goose; Imagining a New World; What Language, What World?; Five | From the Green Movement to the Jasmine Revolution; For the Left to be Right; Illiberal Neoliberalism
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The Dialectics of TransnationalismTranscending Sectarianism: The Sunni-Shi'i Divide; Six | The Center Cannot Hold; Who is History's Master?; The East is West, the West is East; False Anxieties; The Islamic Republic in Bahrain; Decolonizing a World; Seven | The End of Postcolonialism; The Genealogy of an Argument; What Does Post-ideological Mean?; The Point of Ideological Meltdown; Dismantling a Colonized Mind; Societal Modernity and Aesthetic Reason; Semiotic Intransigence; Eight | Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational Revolutions; Changing the Lyrics; Race and Racism; Gender
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Class and LaborGod is Great - So is Freedom; Nine | Libya: The Crucible and the Politics of Space; Selling the Sea to Stay in Power; The Making of a Transnational Civil Rights Movement; Ten | Delayed Defiance; The Dialogism of Open-ended Revolt; Indexical Utterances; Vox Populi, Vox Dei; Conclusion | The People Demand the Overthrow of the Regime; Writing as an Act of Solidarity; Open-ended Revolutions; Dismantling the Regime of Knowledge; Things Not Dreamt in Their Philosophy; Re-Orienting the World; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780322230
Additional Edition:
Print version Dabashi, Hamid The Arab Spring : The End of Postcolonialism London : Zed Books,c2012 ISBN 9781780322230
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Arabischer Frühling
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