A tribe and its states
Yemen’s 1972 Bayḥan massacre revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10280000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marieke Brandt (0000-0003-3258-8139, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 319-338 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00263206.2018.1540415 |
| OpenAlex | W2908615072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Across the Middle East, tribes and states have entered into different relationships. In many countries, tribes were confronted with massive attempts at interference by their respective states. The northern Yemeni Republic, in contrast, remained a weak state with little coercive instruments at its disposal. Its rule was rather based on indirect means: the politics of patronage, the politicization of development efforts, and the exploitation of tribal conflict. This article aims to look closer into state-tribe relations in Yemen by reviewing the power struggle between the Khawlan al-Tiyal tribe and the republican government. In 1972, the regional ramifications of this struggle culminated in the so-called ‘Bayhan massacre’ whose legacy continues to resonate across tribal Yemen today. The Khawlan case gives evidence of how power and legitimacy in republican Yemen remained, and still remain, largely contingent on the politics of co-optation and patronage, an endemic feature that comes at the expense of real institution building
Government (linguistics · Institution · Legitimacy · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Tribe · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |