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- Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
- The Global Middle East
- Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prolegomenon: A Two-Layered Book
- Introduction
- Part I The Making of Latent Citizenship
- 1 Revisiting the Foundations of Citizenship: The Colonial Era
- 2 Post-Independence Aspirations, Security Custodianship, and Latent Citizenship
- Part II Informal Revolutionary Practices (2011–2014)
- Part III Embattled Revolutionary Legacies (2014–2021)
- Sources and References
- Sources and References
- Index
1 - Revisiting the Foundations of Citizenship: The Colonial Era
from Part I - The Making of Latent Citizenship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2023
- Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
- The Global Middle East
- Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prolegomenon: A Two-Layered Book
- Introduction
- Part I The Making of Latent Citizenship
- 1 Revisiting the Foundations of Citizenship: The Colonial Era
- 2 Post-Independence Aspirations, Security Custodianship, and Latent Citizenship
- Part II Informal Revolutionary Practices (2011–2014)
- Part III Embattled Revolutionary Legacies (2014–2021)
- Sources and References
- Sources and References
- Index
Summary
The chapter discusses how citizenship, violence and participation are usually interconnected with the rise of modern political systems. In the Arab Middle East, these democratic articulations went missing during the pre-colonial and colonial periods. Different forms of external encroachments (capitalist encroachment, imperialism, and colonial encroachment) explain the presence of negative or latent citizenship in the Middle East. This chapter offers a historical account of early state-formation in the Middle East and discusses theories of civilization and civility between Europe and the Middle East in a relational manner. It concludes by suggesting the metaphor of the Moebius strip of citizenship.
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- Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings , pp. 59 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023