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

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Analyzing Politics Beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Contemporary Governscapes: Sovereign Practice and Hybrid Orders Beyond the Center....Pages 25-42
The Bureaucratic Mode of Governance and Practical Norms in West Africa and Beyond....Pages 43-64
Beyond the ‘Pragmatism-Radicalism Dialectic’ in the Study of Local Politics....Pages 65-90
The Inward Turn and Its Vicissitudes: Culture, Society, and Politics in Post-1967 Arab Leftist Critiques....Pages 91-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Bringing the Local Back In: Local Politics Between Informalization and Mobilization in an Age of Transformation in Egypt....Pages 113-136
Negotiating (Informal) Institutional Change: Understanding Local Politics in Jordan....Pages 137-157
Morocco Between Decentralization and Recentralization: Encountering the State in the ‘Useless Morocco’....Pages 158-177
Revisiting Politics in Spaces ‘Beyond the Center’: The Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon....Pages 178-195
Political Participation in Algeria Beyond the Polling Stations: Insights from Tizi-Ouzou....Pages 196-213
Tribes, Revolution, and Political Culture in the Cyrenaica Region of Libya....Pages 214-231
Conclusion....Pages 232-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-242