Binary Framings, Islam and Struggle for Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
Published by: Warwick University
In this paper, I investigate how binary framings of women’s identity have influenced struggles for women’s rights and the...
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Published by: Warwick University
In this paper, I investigate how binary framings of women’s identity have influenced struggles for women’s rights and the...
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
This article explores the opportunities and conundrums of understanding violence at critical junctures following ruptures in political...
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
This Special Issue of Conflict, Security & Development explores the relationship between political settlements and violence. While there...
Published by: IDS
How do popular protests about the basics of everyday life, specifically about energy, come about in settings where political authority is fragmented and conflict and repression common? How do state and political actors respond to protests which disrupt social and economic life, and undermine public authority? To what extent do such mass protests, often justified as inherently moral struggles over the basics of everyday life, empower the powerless or hold the powerful to account in such political settings? And how do external actors shape these events?
Published by: Edinburgh University Press
This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in North Africa and West Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyses key themes and examines current trends.
Published by: IDS
Perhaps more than any other region or any other period of post-Cold War history, the Middle East since the Arab Spring constitutes a significant challenge to established ideas about development and its relationship with conflict.
In this introductory article we identify eight myths of conflict and development related to the Middle East region. Some of these myths,...
This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 47.3, 'Ruptures and Ripple Effects in the Middle East and Beyond'.
Ethnicity has become prominent in popular and scholarly thinking over the last 50 years. In the late 1960s a few key works stimulated...
Published by: Sage
The article argues that a number of factors if analysed individually suggest there is no difference in the dynamics of sexual violence in protest and non-protest spaces, however suggest a pattern that is politically driven.