Peripheral visions [electronic resource] : publics, power, and performance in Yemen / Lisa Wedeen.

Introduction
Imagining unity
Seeing like a citizen, acting like a state
The politics of deliberation: q?t chews as public spheres
Practicing piety, summoning groups: disorder as control
Piety in time: contemporary islamic movements in national and transnational contexts
Conclusion
Politics as performative
Notes
Bibliography
Index.