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O (Ed) Abi-Mershed - Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance After the Arab Spring - 9781849048279 - V9781849048279
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Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance After the Arab Spring

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Description for Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance After the Arab Spring Paperback. Maps the significant yet often overlooked forces shaping Maghrebian society from below. Editor(s): Abi-Mershed, Osama. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JM; HBJH; HBLX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 256.
Social Currents in North Africa presents a multi-disciplinary analysis of social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. It explores some of the most salient institutional and cultural parameters at work, through topics ranging from the workings of religious belief in the public sphere to the moral economies of language instruction and cultural production. Abi- Mershed delivers critical comments on the genealogies of contemporary North African behavioural and ideological norms, and offers insights into the new rationalities of governance after 2011. This volume raises important conceptual interpretations for the field of North Africa studies.

Product Details

Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849048279
SKU
V9781849048279
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Ref
99-5

About O (Ed) Abi-Mershed
Osama Abi-Mershed is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. His most recent publications include Apostles of Modernity: Saint- Simonians and the French Civilizing Mission in Algeria (2010), and the edited volume Trajectories of Education in the Arab World: Legacies and Challenges

Reviews for Social Currents in North Africa: Culture and Governance After the Arab Spring
'Osama Abi-Mershed has pulled together a comprehensive and insightful edited volume that covers several important aspects of Maghrebi political and social currents. Ranging across several countries and topics, but with a focus on social currents in the region, this volume is testimony to the emergence of a new, younger generation of North Africa scholars that promise to provide new and ... Read more

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