Freedom, Power and the Crisis of Politics in Revolutionary Yemen

Porter, Ross

doi:10.1080/19436149.2017.1328875

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“…Further, it extends the country's long history in different political conflicts and regional and international interference in its affairs, resulting in unstable political, economic, social and educational development. These results are consistent with previous and recent research exploring the humanitarian situation and crisis in Yemen (Albloshi, 2016; Byman, 2018; Clausen, 2018; Durac, 2012; Hill, 2010; Jones, 2011; Knights, 2013; Porter, 2017; Stevenson, 2018; Stookey, 1974; Xia, 2010). Second, the considerable damage of educational infrastructure, the violent behaviour of students and teachers, and the pause of educational development are all direct results of the current intertribal conflict where all involved parties use tribes as a tool of war.…”

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“…Although Yemen's reunification in 1990 was a positive model of overcoming the negative impact of World War II and all colonisation empires (Xia, 2010), it seems to be a less fruitful factor within the influence of the intertribal conflict (Jones, 2011) and regional and international direct and indirect interference on the affairs of the country (Byman, 2018; Clausen, 2018; Sherif, 2018; Stevenson, 2018). The country's situation has further worsened since the emergence of the ‘Arab Spring’, with more educational crises (Almunifi & Aleryani, 2021; Muthanna & Sang, 2018b) and economic, social and political crises (Alaghbari et al, 2019; Gamil & Abdul Rahman, 2020; Porter, 2017) that all have a negative impact on current and future generations. Specifically, before these mentioned events, there was a slow progress in the country marked by social security, political stability and a general feeling of safety.…”

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Intertribal conflict, educational development and education crisis in Yemen: A call for saving education

Taher

Khan

Alduais

et al. 2022

Review of Education

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The current political conflict and economic crisis have impacted all aspects of life in Yemen, especially intertribal conflict, which plays a significant role in hindering educational development. In this study, we measure the impact of this conflict on the educational infrastructure, students and teachers' behaviour, and educational development as perceived by students, teachers and administrators. We collected data from 384 respondents: 162 teachers, 163 students and 59 administrative staff in the Aden and Taiz governorates. We also conducted 18 structured interviews with stakeholders from local authorities. The results indicate that: (1) educational infrastructure in Yemen has changed from a poor to a damaged status because of the intertribal conflict; (2) educational development in Yemen is going backward because of the current political conflict and economic crisis; (3) violence being exercised during this conflict has transferred to high school students, teachers and administration staff; and(4) the educational infrastructure is either bombed and attacked by the Arab (international) coalition or used as military bases by the different parties of the conflict.

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Intertribal conflict, educational development and education crisis in Yemen: A call for saving education

Taher

Khan

Alduais

et al. 2022

Review of Education

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“…One of the ultimate goals of the revolutionary circles exampled in this theme section is to generate social justice through ethical self-transformation (see also Porter 2016Porter , 2017. Th e ethics one upholds is, ultimately, what will foster sweeping societal change.…”

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Revolutionary circles

Holbraad¹,

Lamrani²

2021

Focaal

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Drawing on the contributions of this theme section, this introduction stakes out an agenda for the anthropological study of revolutionary circles. Understood as a powerful model of and for political action, the revolutionary circle renders the desire for radical political change as a function of the circular configuration of the group of people who pursue it. This correlation of political ends with social means puts questions of “political morphology”—actors’ concern with the shape of their relationships—at the center of revolutionary action. As the articles of the theme section illustrate, such a concern with social shapes plays itself out not only in questions of political organization, but also those of personal relationships and ethical comportment, practices of secrecy and dissemination, shared activities and values, and their different potentials for transformation over time.

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“… 3. For an interesting take on suspicion that prevailed during the last months of the Yemeni uprising, see Ross Porter, The Crisis of Politics (2017). …”

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Mourning the death of a state to enliven it: Notes on the ‘weak’ Yemeni state

Al-Eriani

2019

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Observers interested in Yemen often worry about the near collapse of the Yemeni state. Such worries assume that the death of the state will lead to a complete social disintegration. With a brief reflection on the 2011 Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative, the recent US–Saudi-led intervention, this article argues that thinking about the Yemeni state through public worry is an exercise in symbolic violence. This violence articulates itself through the erasure of Yemenis’ communitarian culture; an erasure that becomes the condition for perpetuating the life of the discursively produced ‘weak’ state, and the domination of regional-international powers. This article proposes an alternative approach towards rethinking the ‘weak’ Yemeni state. It suggests that rethinking the Yemeni state through mourning its death could possibly give birth to a novel form of political community. It is through acts of mourning the injury and (imagined) death of the weak Yemeni state that the promise of the state as a unifying apparatus is reclaimed.

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Freedom, Power and the Crisis of Politics in Revolutionary Yemen

Cited by 9 publications

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Intertribal conflict, educational development and education crisis in Yemen: A call for saving education

Intertribal conflict, educational development and education crisis in Yemen: A call for saving education

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