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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Counterterrorism and Colonialism

    Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt

    by Alice Finden ...
    Series series Interventions
    This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised. The book investigates the historical development of preventive tools through the discursive imagery of vulnerability, morality and extremism that ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Policing Sexuality

    Sex, Society, and the State

    by Julian C. H. Lee ...
    Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Multiculturalism without Culture

    by Anne Phillips ...
    Public opinion in recent years has soured on multiculturalism, due in large part to fears of radical Islam. In Multiculturalism without Culture, Anne Phillips contends that critics misrepresent culture as the explanation of everything individuals from minority and non-Western groups do. She puts forward a defense of multiculturalism that dispenses with notions of culture, instead placing ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Terrifying Muslims

    Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

    by Junaid Rana ...
    Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    by Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionary Womanhood

    Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt

    by Laura Bier ...
    "Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building." —Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender and Culture

    by Anne Phillips ...
    The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate. Yet discussion of these tensions is marred by exaggerated talk of cultural difference, leading to ethnic reductionism, cultural stereotyping, and a hierarchy of traditional and modern. In this volume, Anne Phillips firmly rejects the notion that ‘culture’ might justify ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Afterlives of Revolution

    Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

    by Alice Wilson ...
    The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965–1976, in an attempt to depose Oman's British-backed Sultan and advance social ideals of egalitarianism and gender equality. Dhufar, the southernmost governorate in today's Sultanate, captured global attention for its revolutionaries and their liberation movement's Marxist-inspired social change. But following counterinsurgency victory, Oman's ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East

    by Armando Salvatore, Sari Hanafi, Kieko Obuse ...
    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    The sociology of the Middle East has been an expanding field of inquiry since the aftermath of World War II when the Middle East became central in key sociological debates on modernization theory and their critical responses. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East connects this historical trajectory with the emergence of the sociology of Islam, inspired by Max Weber. It explores ... Read more

    $176.99 USD

  • The Federal System and Conflict Management

    by BAHOZ ARAS ...
    For many decades, federalism has played a vital role in managing ethnocultural conflicts and establishing peace in countries with diverse cultures or historical regions. Nevertheless, it is essential to understand why federalism has evolved. How does the federal system contribute to the management of conflicts and the restoration of societal peace? The purpose of this book is to examine the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arab Family Studies

    Critical Reviews

    Edited by Suad Joseph ...
    Series series Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
    Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world. To engender love of nation among its citizens, national movements portray the nation as a family. To motivate loyalty, political leaders frame themselves as fathers, mothers, brothers, or sisters to their clients, parties, or the citizenry. To stimulate production, economic ... Read more

    $50.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kurdish Question in Turkey

    New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation

    Edited by Cengiz Gunes, Welat Zeydanlioglu ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
    Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and the conflict ... Read more

    $73.99 USD