Methods for a neoliberal order: views on Yemen. (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aboul-Ela, Hosam
• Other Names: Gordon Avery F. guest-editor.; Hoad Neville guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Race & class. Volume 60:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 89
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: Aden -- Barbara Harlow -- colonial discourse -- empire -- historicism -- post-9/11 -- postcolonial -- Resistance Literature -- Sonallah Ibrahim -- Yemen; Race relations -- Periodicals; Social classes -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; 305.8
• DOI: 10.1177/0306396818812001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-3968

Abstract

In Barbara Harlow's last works, there was a distinctive methodological shift as she confronted the new realities of the post-9/11 world. The implications of this methodological movement are explored in this article through a reading of the history of the Yemeni city of Aden. Aden's history – as a protectorate, an Arabic-speaking port, a virtual city-state and a link to East Africa – suggests the ways in which historical particularity often fits the colonial discourse paradigm imperfectly. Aden also later became a centre of radical anti-colonial solidarity in the 1970s, a centre of extreme jihadi activity during the war on terror and, most recently, a site of catastrophe manufactured by global elites. This historical trajectory also calls for a critical accounting of new methods and approaches for addressing the inequalities of the contemporary global order.