Vol. 7 No. 027 (2019): Issue 027

غلاف العدد 27 من دورية عمران

Issue 27 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Winter 2019) includes the following studies and articles: “Unfinished Dream: A Critique of Samir Amin” (Isam al Khafaji); “Can Information Technology Bring Capitalism to an End?” (Ibrahim El-Issawy); “Protest and Rage through Social Networks: Towards Renewed Forms of Political Participation in Algeria” (Aissa Merah); “Ecology of Poverty: An Anthropological Approach to Adaptive Dynamics and Living Practices” (Fouzia Borj); “Producing Marginalization: School Dropouts and Social Exclusion among Youth in Tunisian Border Areas” (Mohamed Ali Ben Zina); “A Reading in Azmi Bisharaʼs Book Sects in Historical Context” (Hussam abu hamed); “Prospects for Sectarianism Studies after Sect, Sectarianism and Imagined Sects” (Haider Saeed); “On the Sectarian Reproduction of the Sect The Theoretical, the Socio-Political and the Historical” (Mohammed Jamal Barout); “The Concept of Sectarianism in Sect, Sectarianism, and Imagined Sects by Azmi Bishara: From Redefining to Conceptualisation: A Reading and Analysis of the Semantic Field” (Mehdi Mabrouk); “Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology” (Alejandro Portes).

Published: 2019-01-01

Studies

  • Unfinished Dream: A Critique of Samir Amin

    Author: Isam al Khafaji (Author)
    7-24

    This study revisits Samir Amin’s Marxist conceptual framework as one of the pioneers of the Dependency Theory School that dominated scholarly understandings of the structural relationship...

  • Can Information Technology Bring Capitalism to an End?

    Author: Ibrahim El-Issawy (Author)
    25-51

    The aim of this article is to examine the consequences of information technology for the future of capitalism. Paul Mason’s book: Postcapitalism is taken as the paper’s point of departure...

  • Protest and Rage through Social Networks: Towards Renewed Forms of Political Participation in Algeria

    Author: Aissa Merah (Author)
    53-70

    This article examines the shift of political outrage and protest, which have traditionally taken the shape of demonstrations, occupations and so forth, into the digital space by way of social...

  • Ecology of Poverty: An Anthropological Approach to Adaptive Dynamics and Living Practices

    Author: Fouzia Borj (Author)
    71-100

    This study analyzes the social dynamics associated with resource management practices, the forms of competitiveness as well as the different patterns of legitimacy associated with access to...

  • Producing Marginalization: School Dropouts and Social Exclusion among Youth in Tunisian Border Areas

    Author: Mohamed Ali Ben Zina (Author)
    101-118

    Does marginalisation stem from the "unintended" side effects of development processes? Or is the cultural-social-political production of this phenomenon inherent to some of these same policies?...

Discussions

  • A Reading in Azmi Bisharaʼs Book Sects in Historical Context

    Author: Hussam abu hamed (Author)
    155-175

    Author: Azmi Bishara. Place of Publication: Beirut/Doha. Publisher: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Pages: 927.

  • Prospects for Sectarianism Studies after Sect, Sectarianism and Imagined Sects

    Author: Haider Saeed (Author)
    177-189

    Author: Azmi Bishara. Place of Publication: Beirut/Doha. Publisher: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Pages: 927.

  • On the Sectarian Reproduction of the Sect The Theoretical, the Socio-Political and the Historical

    Author: Mohammed Jamal Barout (Author)
    191-203

    In his book, Bishara proposes a grounded model and a general theory on Middle–Eastern sectarianism through reconceptualization of sectarianism within its Middle–Eastern historical context.

  • The Concept of Sectarianism in Sect, Sectarianism, and Imagined Sects by Azmi Bishara: From Redefining to Conceptualisation: A Reading and Analysis of the Semantic Field

    Author: Mehdi Mabrouk (Author)
    205-224

    Author: Azmi Bishara. Place of Publication: Beirut/Doha. Publisher: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Pages: 927.

Translation

  • Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology

    Author: Alejandro Portes (Author)
    121-150

    This paper reviews the origins and definitions of social capital in the writings of Bourdieu, Loury, and Coleman, among other authors. It distinguishes four sources of social capital and...