Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Volume 14, Issues 1-2Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, 2004 |
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... means to be a postcolonial state . This means raising difficult questions which go beyond the remit of developmental studies per se . Should we continue to dwell on a discourse on development which emphasises the failure of these states ...
... means to be a postcolonial state . This means raising difficult questions which go beyond the remit of developmental studies per se . Should we continue to dwell on a discourse on development which emphasises the failure of these states ...
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... means achieving what Gramsci might call ' hegemony ' or Foucault calls ' productive ' ( as opposed to coercive ) power . Political narratives , therefore , compete to define the accepted , dominant canon of a polity's identity ...
... means achieving what Gramsci might call ' hegemony ' or Foucault calls ' productive ' ( as opposed to coercive ) power . Political narratives , therefore , compete to define the accepted , dominant canon of a polity's identity ...
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... means to be in a position to use a certain syntax , to grasp the morphology of this or that language , but it means above all to assume a culture , to support the weight of a civilization . [ ... ] A man who has a language consequently ...
... means to be in a position to use a certain syntax , to grasp the morphology of this or that language , but it means above all to assume a culture , to support the weight of a civilization . [ ... ] A man who has a language consequently ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Theorising the political in the Middle East | 17 |
Disciplinarity and | 47 |
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