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Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa book cover

1st Edition

Subalterns and Social Protest History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited By Stephanie Cronin Copyright 2008
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and... Read more

Introduction / Stephanie Cronin

Part One: The Urban Crowd and Popular Protest

1. Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus / James Grehan

2. Women and Popular Protest: women’s demonstrations in nineteenth century Iran / Vanessa Martin

Part Two: Poor People’s Politics

3. Popular Protest, the Market and the State in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Egypt / John Chalcraft

4. Workless Revolutionaries: the movement of the unemployed in post-revolutionary Iran / Asef Bayat

5. Transforming the city from below: shanty-town dwellers and the fight for electricity in Casablanca / Lamia Zaki

Part Three: Peasants and Nomads

6. Resisting the New State: the rural poor, land and modernity in Iran, 1921-1941 / Stephanie Cronin

Part Four: Marginals and Outcasts

7. Exploring the Margins of Ottoman Society: "disorderly" Gypsies" / Failk Celik

8. Emancipated Female Slaves in Algiers: marriage, property and social advancement in the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries / Fatiha Loualich

Part Five: European Subalterns

9. "Making It" in Pre-Colonial Tunis: migration, work and poverty in a Mediterranean port-city, c. 1815-1870 / Julia Clancy-Smith

10. Foreign Workers in Egypt 1882-1914: subalterns or labour aristocracy? / Antony Gorman

Part Six: Subalterns and National Movements

11. From National Heroes to National Villains: Bandits and the formation of modern Greece / Gerassimos Karabelias

12. Seizing the Initiative, Regaining a Voice: the al-Aqsa Intifada as a strategy of the marginalized / Roger Heacock

Biography

Stephanie Cronin is Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow at the University of Northampton. Her most recent book is Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921–1941, also published by Routledge.

'As an exploratory attempt to bring the methods and concerns of "History from below" to the region, the book is a clear success' - R.S.G. Fletcher, Asian Affairs, 2008

' In terms of historical span, extending from the 16th century to the present, and its geographical diversity, the collection is a unique contribution to the effort of recovering the subaltern margins of society' - Nazan Maksudyan, International Journal of Middle East Studies. 42 (2010)

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