Description: The concept of the ‘dangerous classes’ was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. This included beggars and vagrants, swindlers, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and pimps, ex-soldiers, ex-prisoners, tricksters, drug-dealers, the unemployed or unemployable, indeed every type of the criminal and marginal. This book examines the ‘dangerous classes’ in the Middle East and North Africa, their lives and the strategies they used to avoid, evade, cheat, placate or, occasionally, resist, the authorities. Chapters cover the narratives of their lives; their relationship with ‘respectable’ society; their political inclinations and their role in shaping systems and institutions of discipline and control and their representation in literature and in popular culture. The book demonstrates the liminality of the ‘dangerous classes’ and their capacity for re-invention. It also indicates the sharpening relevance of the concept to a Middle East and North Africa now in the grip of an almost permanent sense of crisis, its younger generations crippled by a pervasive sense of hopelessness, prone to petty crime and vulnerable to induction as foot soldiers into drug and people smuggling, petty gangsterism and jihadism.
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EAN: 9780755645015
UPC: 9780755645015
ISBN: 9780755645015
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Book Title: Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Width: 156 mm
Author: Stephanie Cronin
Publication Name: Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: the 'dangerous Classes' since 1800
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Subject: History, Criminology
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 467 g
Number of Pages: 328 Pages