Elizabeth F Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 196355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth F Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth F |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON E F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Manufacturing memory
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
AHR Conversation
Justice Interrupted
The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were often portrayed in the media as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were--and saw themselves as--heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law, a struggle obstructed by local elites as well as the interventions of foreign powers. Elizabeth F. Thompson uncovers the deep roots of liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East through the remarkable stories of t…
Politics by other screens
At the end of the Second World War, a new battle broke out in Morocco. Not a foreign invasion or tribal revolt, but a war of cinemas. Most Moroccans, it seemed, started going to the movies. Muslims made up half of the moviegoing population in cities, and nearly 95 percent in small towns.[i] A New York Times reporter captured fans’ enthusiasm in a 1949 article: Almost entirely illiterate, severely bitten by the movie bug, the Arab audiences consid…
Pensée 2
Given limits of time and space, I offer here an appraisal of what I see to be an important new trend: a number of scholars across disciplines and generations have taken what we have learned from the era of deconstructionist cultural analysis in the past twenty-five years and inaugurated an era of “reconstruction.” Some have moved beyond the “cultural turn” to consider how cultural forms of power interact with other forms of power—social, economic…
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Pensée 2
Given limits of time and space, I offer here an appraisal of what I see to be an important new trend: a number of scholars across disciplines and generations have taken what we have learned from the era of deconstructionist cultural analysis in the past twenty-five years and inaugurated an era of “reconstruction.” Some have moved beyond the “cultural turn” to consider how cultural forms of power interact with other forms of power—social, economic…
Politics by other screens
At the end of the Second World War, a new battle broke out in Morocco. Not a foreign invasion or tribal revolt, but a war of cinemas. Most Moroccans, it seemed, started going to the movies. Muslims made up half of the moviegoing population in cities, and nearly 95 percent in small towns.[i] A New York Times reporter captured fans’ enthusiasm in a 1949 article: Almost entirely illiterate, severely bitten by the movie bug, the Arab audiences consid…
Justice Interrupted
The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were often portrayed in the media as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were--and saw themselves as--heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law, a struggle obstructed by local elites as well as the interventions of foreign powers. Elizabeth F. Thompson uncovers the deep roots of liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East through the remarkable stories of t…
AHR Conversation
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs
Manufacturing memory
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (1 works)