Download or read book Economy Society Culture in Contemporary Yemen written by B.R. Pridham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen was written to present a wealth of research and thinking that was new to the field at the time of original publication. The book covers a wide range of topics, including socio-economic development, agriculture, land use, fiscal policies, emigration, health, education, and politics. In doing so, it provides a close analysis of the situation in Yemen in the 1980s whilst exploring recent developments of the preceding years. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history of Yemen.
Download or read book Civil Society in Yemen written by Sheila Carapico and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political culture in Arabia which challenges the stereotypical view of traditional Arab society.
Download or read book Contemporary Yemen written by B.R. Pridham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents some papers presented to a symposium on contemporary Yemen held in July 1983 by Exeter University's Centre for Arab Gulf Studies in collaboration with the Universities of Aden and San'a', and deals with history, internal and international politics, and administrative subjects.
Download or read book Counter Narratives written by M. Al-Rasheed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saudi Arabia and Yemen are two countries of crucial importance in the Middle East and yet our knowledge about them is highly limited, while typical ways of looking at the histories of these countries have impeded understanding. Counter-Narratives brings together a group of leading scholars of the Middle East using new theoretical and methodological approaches to cross-examine standard stories, whether as told by Westerners or by Saudis and Yemenis, and these are found wanting. The authors assess how grand historical narratives such as those produced by states and colonial powers are currently challenged by multiple historical actors, a process which generates alternative narratives about identity, the state and society.
Download or read book Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy written by Avner Greif and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Yemen Divided written by Noel Brehony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Yemen has come to be seen as a potential Al-Qaeda stronghold and at the heart of a separatist movement threatening to rip apart southern Arabia. How has this country of forbidding mountains and arid deserts gone from British colony to communist state and then to 'terrorist base' in just half a century? In "Yemen Divided", author and Middle East expert Noel Brehony tells for the first time comprehensive history of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY). He explains the power politics that came to form a communist republic a few hundred miles from the holiest site in Islam, and the process and conflicts that led to Yemeni unification in 1990. The impact of PDRY is still felt today as unrest continues to escalate across the south. "Yemen Divided" is an important book for anyone wanting to understand why Yemen, sensitive neighbour of Saudi Arabia and strategically vital to Middle East security, has veered towards massive instability.
Download or read book Tournaments of Value written by Anne Meneley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world. Meneley’s data challenges assumptions about the cross-cultural validity of a division between household and community, between domestic and public domains. She demonstrates the fluidity of social life, the shifting nature of community organization, and in doing so provides a welcome counterpoint to more rigid formulations of Middle Eastern social structure usually expressed in ethnographies. Tournaments of Value incorporates vignettes to illustrate more analytical points and to enliven the text, allowing the reader to enter fully into the rich world of Zabid in Yemen. This expanded 20th anniversary edition introduces this seminal work on Middle Eastern ethnography and women’s studies to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book Political Ecology and the Role of Water written by Gerhard Lichtenthäler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South? Population growth, poverty and problems associated with common property resource management have been common themes in this debate, yet insufficient attention has been paid to how traditional political relations and local perceptions affect natural resource capture and resource allocation. This is especially evident with respect to groups and communities at the political and geographical peripheries of state influence and control for whom self-identity is constructed around notions of autonomy and food self-sufficiency. This informative book addresses this omission by discussing water resource allocation and management. It focuses in particular on the socio-economic and political contexts which influence approaches to and determine practices of water management. Taking the example of the tribal communities of the Sa’dah basin in the northern Yemen, it analyzes the politics of environmental change, with particular reference to groundwater resource degradation, within the conceptual framework of political ecology .
Download or read book The Yemen Arab Republic written by Robert D. Burrowes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining political and socioeconomic change in the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), this book, first published in 1987, focuses primarily on the quarter century following the overthrow of the imamate in 1962. The problems and politics of the period’s republican leaders and their regimes are analysed against the backdrop of Yemen’s traditional Islamic theocracy, the Zaydi imamate, which ruled for over a millennium. A country very similar to Afghanistan in its mountainous terrain, tribal social organization, and traditional Islamic culture, the YAR was almost completely isolated and insulated from the modern world and modern politics until the ousting of the imamate. This book explores in detail the processes of change, the political leaders involved, and the impact of domestic and external forces. Dr Burrowes draws on his extensive conversations with YAR leaders to provide a unique view of a country trying to cope with change and modernization.
Download or read book Society and Economy written by Mark Granovetter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology, this first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas stresses that the economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities but is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and constraints as religion, science, politics, or law.
Download or read book Islam Charity and Activism written by Janine A. Clark and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through case studies of Islamic medical clinics in Egypt, the Islamic Center Charity Society in Jordan and the Islah Women's Charitable Society in Yemen, Janine A. Clark examines the structure and dynamics of moderate Islamic institutions and their social and political impact.
Download or read book Regionalism and Rebellion in Yemen written by Stephen W. Day and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of in-depth field research, this book unravels the complexities of the Yemeni state and its domestic politics with a particular focus on the post-1990 years. The central thesis is that Yemen continues to suffer from regional fragmentation which has endured for centuries. En route the book discusses the rise of President Salih, his tribal and family connections, Yemen's civil war in 1994, the war's consequences later in the decade, the spread of radical movements after the US military response to 9/11 and finally developments leading to the historic events of 2011. This book sets a new standard for scholarship on Yemeni politics and it is essential reading for anyone interested in the modern Middle East, the 2011 Arab revolts and twenty-first-century Islamic politics.
Download or read book The Middle East written by Peter Beaumont and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1976 and in this second edition in 1988, combines an examination of the political, cultural and economic geography of the Middle East with a detailed study of the region’s landscape features, natural resources, environmental conditions and ecological evolution. The Middle East, with its extremes of climate and terrain, has long fascinated those interested in the fine balance between man and his environment, and now its economic and political importance in world affairs has brought the region to the attention of everybody.
Download or read book Arab Society written by Nicholas S. Hopkins and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This all-new edition of the classic Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives, containing thirty new articles by leading scholars, examines Arab society in the 1990s. Articles by scholars from many countries explore such subjects as Arab unity and identity; demographic processes; the roles of men, women, and family; rural social change; political developments; and religious change. For students, scholars, and general readers alike, Arab Society offers up-to-date analysis and discussion of the social, political, and economic transformations that face the region today.
Download or read book Higher Education in the Republic of Yemen written by V. Selvaratnam and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education in Yemen has reached a critical stage requiring urgent reexamination of the course of its development. Future policies should help to diversify the structure of higher education and to provide opportunities for admission to a broader group of students.
Download or read book Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen written by Trevor Marchand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities of a professional class of craftsmen, and investigates the unique teaching-learning processes that distinguish their trade and mould both their professional and social characters.
Download or read book Saudi Yemeni Relations written by F. Gregory Gause and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
