Marie-Christine Heinze (editor) - Yemen and the Search for Stability: Power, Politics and Society After the Arab Spring

Marie-Christine Heinze is President of CARPO (Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient) and a researcher at the University of Bonn, where she has headed the research project Framing the Revolution in Yemen, which the University of Bonn coordinated together with the Yemen Polling Center, and Academic Approaches to Peace-building and State-building in Yemen, co-implemented with the Gender Development Research and Studies Center (GDRSC) at Sanaa University. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Bielefeld and is editor of the Jemen-Report, the magazine of the German-Yemeni Society. She also frequently works as a consultant on Yemen and has published widely on social and political change in the country.

An excellent collection of new research on Yemen based on detailed fieldwork.

Charles Schmitz, Professor, Towson University

An exciting, indispensable collection of chapters by up-and-coming scholars, based on first-hand field research completed mostly during the tumultuous, but still hopeful, historical moment between the mass popular uprising in 2011 and the outbreak of war in 2015.

Sheila Carapico, Professor, University of Richmond

Today Yemen suffers its worst crisis since the turbulent years of the late 19th century. A catastrophic war is compounded by the prospect of the country's renewed partition and colonial encroachment. Yet far from writing Yemen's obituary, the authors of this timely collection of essays provide compelling and nuanced analyses of the cultural and political trajectories of the years that followed President Ali Abd Allah Salih's resignation. Readers become familiar with the creative responses of activists, filmmakers, artists and entrepreneurs to what appeared as a moment of profound transformation, in the hope that their grass roots activities will contribute to a peaceful and stable post-war era. A number of highly original essays discuss hitherto little-known features of the transition process: women's empowerment in the National Dialogue Conference, Salafis' democracy training, provincial self-organization models and intergenerational memory among sympathizers of the Southern Independence Movement.

Yemen and the Search for Stability makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Arab Spring and its aftermath on the Arabian Peninsula. It will be illuminating for anyone who wants to gain insights into contemporary Yemen beyond the headlines.

Gabriele vom Bruck, Senior Lecturer, School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

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To the Yemenis who continue to struggle peacefully for a better future may their voices be heard and their spirits not falter.

Contents

Marie-Christine Heinze

Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi

Ewa K. Strzelecka

Elisabeth Kendall

Anne-Linda Amira Augustin

Tobias Thiel

Nadia al-Sakkaf

Marieke Brandt

Laurent Bonnefoy

Judit Kuschnitzki

Mareike Transfeld

Katherine Hennessey

Stephen Steinbeiser

Maria-Louise Clausen

Acknowledgements and
Note on Transcription

The chapters in this book result from papers presented at the conference The New Yemen Social, Cultural, and Political Ramifications of the Revolution Three Years After at the University of Bonn on 1617 June 2014. The conference as well as this volume are outputs of a project entitled Framing the Revolution in Yemen, which was co-implemented by the University of Bonn and the Yemen Polling Center from 2012 to 2014 and which was generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The editor would like to gratefully acknowledge the Volkswagen Foundation's continued support throughout the course of this project as well as the publication process of this volume. She would also like to gratefully acknowledge the continued support of the director of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bonn, Prof. Dr. Stephan Conermann, for this project as well as the excellent cooperation and partnership with the Yemen Polling Center, and particularly with Hafez Albukari and Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi, throughout the project and beyond. She would furthermore like to thank Amira Augustin, Marieke Brandt, Katherine Hennessey and Mareike Transfeld for commenting on some of the draft chapters as well as the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful remarks and recommendations. A very special and heartfelt thank you goes to Debra Lichtenthaeler for her excellent and patient editing of the entire book.

For the transcription of Arabic names and terms into English, the editor has chosen to remain as close as possible to the rules of academic transcription without using diacritics (except for the ayn and the hamza). The names of personalities as well as place names have been rendered according to this rule except when citing the authors of papers or books. Here, the spelling of the name in the publication was retained.

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