De bijdragen in dit boek zijn toegespitst op de verhouding mensenrechten-vrouwenrechten. Naast een aantal teksten waarin die verhouding theoretisch uitgediept wordt, zijn er ook casussen uit verschillende landen, voornamelijk ontwikkelingslanden. In het theoretisch deel wordt er…
A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world."--…
"A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world."-…
"A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world."-…
Long Live the Arab Worker: A Transnational History of Labor and Empire in the Yemeni Diaspora, examines how Yemeni workers and activists in their struggle to live and make a living highlighted the connections between local challenges in the diaspora with global politics of empir…
This paper is a study of discourses related to HIV/AIDS development programming in Yemen. It is situated within Hakan Seckinelgin's problematization of the global governance of HIV. It analyzes how development workers addressing HIV/AIDS in Yemen conceptualize their approaches a…
This dissertation examines prison-based deradicalization programs for terrorist detainees and argues that highly institutionalized deradicalization programs that include a robust religious re-education component are more likely to be effective in achieving deradicalization when …
Since 2004, the Yemeni government has been fighting a bloody civil war with local Zaydi Shia forces known as the Houthis in the country's north. Conventional explanations rooted in the recent history of the civil war fail to adequately account for the rise of the rebels and thei…
Social historians tend to study Yemen migration through the lens of western capitalism. In so doing, they focus on modern events that shaped the movement of Yemenis out of south Arabia and dismiss the elements of mobility that have defined Yemen for millennia. This work aims to …
The purpose of this dissertation is to use a Foucauldian lens to examine the nature and scope of the many challenges the British faced in southwest Arabia in the wake of the retreating Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War. The subsequent power vacuum which ensued mea…