Research on authoritarian connections beyond the state requires a transregional practices
approach. This special issue is an invitation to combine critical approaches to the study of …

Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying
on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes …

A growing literature links experiences of armed conflict with postwar political behavior. This
paper examines how legacies of wartime violence shape dynamics of protest in twenty-first …

In this paper, I use Tahrir Square as a case study to examine the significance of space to
Iraq's October Revolution. I draw on the work of Henri Lefebvre to argue that the revolution in …

This article explores efforts at Arab-Israeli normalisation in Jordan. By mid-2011 the
escalating violence in Syria had closed the overland trade route connecting Europe and the …

A landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts Rather
than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, US domestic courts are increasingly seen as …

This article proposes theorising contemporary uprisings through an analytical lens that
considers the discursiveness, spatiality and materiality of protests and protesters, and the …

This paper explores the passionate attachments that underpin subjection to political
authority. It does so through an examination of the ways residents of the Jordanian city of Ma …

Iraq is home to a patchwork of competing sovereignties with their own security actors, all of
which routinely use checkpoints in the provision of 'security'. However, as this article …

Urban conflict literature has attempted new comparisons between contested cities in conflict
zones and cities with no armed conflict. This literature tends to use representational …