Local Politics and Contemporary Transformations in the Arab World

1. Analyzing Politics Beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation

1. Analyzing Politics Beyond the Center in an Age of Transformation
Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane, Cilja Harders

Part I. Theorizing (Local) Politics—Conceptual Contributions

2. Contemporary Governscapes: Sovereign Practice and Hybrid Orders Beyond the Center
Finn Stepputat

3. The Bureaucratic Mode of Governance and Practical Norms in West Africa and Beyond
Jean-Pierre Olivier Sardan

4. Beyond the ‘Pragmatism-Radicalism Dialectic’ in the Study of Local Politics
Paul Amar

5. The Inward Turn and Its Vicissitudes: Culture, Society, and Politics in Post-1967 Arab Leftist Critiques
Fadi A. Bardawil

Part II. Localizing Theory—Case Studies

6. Bringing the Local Back In: Local Politics Between Informalization and Mobilization in an Age of Transformation in Egypt
Cilja Harders

7. Negotiating (Informal) Institutional Change: Understanding Local Politics in Jordan
Malika Bouziane

8. Morocco Between Decentralization and Recentralization: Encountering the State in the ‘Useless Morocco’
Anja Hoffmann

9. Revisiting Politics in Spaces ‘Beyond the Center’: The Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Hala Abou-Zaki

10. Political Participation in Algeria Beyond the Polling Stations: Insights from Tizi-Ouzou
Naoual Belakhdar

11. Tribes, Revolution, and Political Culture in the Cyrenaica Region of Libya
Thomas Hüsken

12. Conclusion
Cilja Harders, Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Middle Eastern Politics, Political Economy, Development Policy, Development Studies, Political Sociology, Political Science