the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women
1990/02/01 by Lila Abu‐Lughod, LILA ABU‐LUGHOD · 19 citations
Social Sciences · #Islamic Studies and History #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
paper · doi:10.1525/ae.1990.17.1.02a00030
Abstract
Resistance has become in recent years a popular focus for work in the human sciences. Despite the theoretical sophistication of many anthropological and historical studies of everyday resistance, there remains a tendency to romanticize it. I argue instead that resistance should be used as a diagnostic of power, and I show what the forms of Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin women's resistance can reveal about the historically changing relations of power in which they are enmeshed as they become increasingly incorporated into the Egyptian state and economy. [resistance, power, Bedouins, women, the state, Egypt]
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