Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen

by Susanne Dahlgren

Aden, the former capital of the only Marxist republic in the Arab world, has returned to the headlines as the scene of a popular uprising against the tribal-military rule of present-day Yemen. Dahlgren traces the social and political history of Aden from the late British colonial era, exploring the evolving ways in which the society has been established in a tension between contesting normative orders. Dahlgren offers a complex picture of Adeni...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632460
• ISBN13: 9780815632467
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"