The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East - Hardcover

Tripp, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521809657 ISBN 13: 9780521809658

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book is about power. The power wielded over others - by absolute monarchs, tyrannical totalitarian regimes and military occupiers - and the power of the people who resist and deny their rulers' claims to that authority by whatever means. The extraordinary events in the Middle East in 2011 offered a vivid example of how non-violent demonstration can topple seemingly invincible rulers. Drawing on these dramatic events and parallel moments in the modern history of the Middle East, from the violent uprisings in Algeria against the French in the early twentieth century, to revolution in Iran in 1979, and the Palestinian intifada, the book considers the ways in which the people have united to unseat their oppressors and fight against the status quo to shape a better future. The book also probes the relationship between power and forms of resistance and how common experiences of violence and repression create new collective identities. Nowhere is this more strikingly exemplified than in the art of the Middle East, its posters and graffiti, and its provocative installations which are discussed in the concluding chapter. This brilliant, yet unsettling book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression, and political resistance.

About this title

Book Description:

This book is about the power wielded by authoritarian regimes, and the power of the peoples' resistance. Drawing on recent dramatic developments in the Middle East and parallel moments in its modern history, it examines how the people have united to unseat their oppressors. This brilliant yet unsettling book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression, and political resistance.

About the Author:

Charles Tripp is Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge Middle East Studies Series and author of A History of Iraq (3rd edition, 2007) and Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism (2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0521809657
• ISBN 13: 9780521809658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 407