1. Political Creativity in the Republic of Yemen: Sana'ani women intertwining networks of political participation.
- Author
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Alviso-Marino, Anahí
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PRACTICAL politics , *ORIENTALISM , *WOMEN in politics , *ISLAM - Abstract
Everyday images and headlines generate information intersected by complex power relations that construct, reproduce, and define Middle Eastern politics through a versatile orientalism. Within this essentialist logic, Islam as religion, culture, or political system tends to be represented as a perturbing element if not as an obstacle in the political construction of a country.This paper proposes to employ the case of the Republic of Yemen in order to contest these and other images that ultimately reproduce specific relations of power vis à vis the Arab countries. The convergence of Islam and politics in Yemen will be examined in this paper, showing the creative articulations of power that are at sake in this process. Furthermore, the diverse forms in which women are participating in this process will be fleshed out to ultimately affirm that politics, in this part of the Arab peninsula, is being an activity more creative than ever. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008