Publics, Politics and Participation

Shami 19 and Public, addresses the emergence of a wide range of locations, social statuses, discourses and practices that destab ...

20 Introduction the importance of reconciliation with the self as the first step towards the reconciliation with the other, who ...

Shami 21 but who also, by virtue of their “foreignness,” do not constitute part of the national body. e constitution of the “bod ...

22 Introduction between private and public, or personal and political, would preclude a full understanding of Iranian politics a ...

Shami 23 create new publics that challenge existing social as well as political bound- aries?^8 The chapters in this section pro ...

24 Introduction and directly through the audience they created, the imagined community of print capitalism, but also through the ...

Shami 25 not only a way of accessing global news but also national news and even reports on local or neighborhood events, which ...

26 Introduction local and the national. Amir-Ebrahimi furthermore shows the linkages between different forms of media, the press ...

Shami 27 creation and imagination of other national public spheres, that of the “vic- tims of English domination.” The colonial ...

28 Introduction the border in Iran, the “blogosphere” is an active weapon in the hands of those Iraqis who have only their ideas ...

Shami 29 changes in both the internal and external relations of the movement with regards to a changing national and regional co ...

30 Introduction The spatial formations of the public Sociological approaches to the study of public spheres have emphasized the ...

Shami 31 Middle East and North Africa region with its long and rich urban his- tory. The importance of spaces that bring togethe ...

32 Introduction (via the state, but not only the state) a historical perspective is partic- ularly important. Kırlı discusses th ...

Shami 33 publics, on competing publics and on counter-publics.^15 In addition, Göle stresses that, “Public spheres undergo chang ...

34 Introduction and (traditional) “Muslim” identity and are thus reflexive. Which raises the question of which “public” is there ...

Shami 35 arena of discursive interaction [that] is conceptually distinct from the state [and] is a site for the production and c ...

36 Introduction proper balance between state building and civil society/nation building (in Palestine for example). Examining th ...

Shami 37 everal chapters in this volume join a growing literature that seeks S to incorporate the realm of religion into current ...

38 Introduction experience that provides the basis of much that is represented as theoreti- cal and even universal. If this intr ...