Noble Robbers, avengers and entrepreneurs: Eric Hobsbawm and Banditry in Iran, the Middle East and North Africa

Cronin, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/00263206.2016.1186654

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“…Stephanie Cronin (2016) added to the discourse by surveying social banditry in Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa. Cronin describes the various forms in which social banditry manifested in these regions and presented them in their local and cultural contexts.…”

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“Palestine’s Robin Hood”: Abu‐Jildeh and the Making of a Social Bandit

Chetrit¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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This study explores the history of Palestinian Arab outlaw Abu-Jildeh (∼1900-1934), as a case study for constructing a social bandit image. Between May 1933 and April 1934, following several robberies and murders, Abu-Jildeh was Palestine's most wanted criminal. The British-led Palestine Police Force's failure to arrest the bandit, despite significant efforts, further enhanced Abu-Jildeh's public image, making him an Arab folk hero and symbol of resistance to the British Mandate government. The research used British archival sources, Palestinian Arab and Jewish press articles, memoirs, and oral history to propose a valid historical narrative and uncover the facts behind a typical social bandit myth. These enable retracing the actions of the three main actors in Abu-Jildeh's saga: the outlaw himself, the police hunting him, and the local Arab press, who glorified him.

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“Palestine’s Robin Hood”: Abu‐Jildeh and the Making of a Social Bandit

Chetrit¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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“…As Stephanie Cronin has suggested in exploring banditry in North Africa and the Middle East, banditry reinvented itself in relation to changes in the state and processes of modernization. 49 It was, in turn, rooted more broadly in structural changes in the economy, and in the complex realities of the everyday state.…”

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Introduction: Margins and the State—Caste, ‘Tribe’ and Criminality in South Asia

Gandee

Gould

2020

Studies in History

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This introduction outlines some of the key historiographical debates concerning caste, ‘tribe’ and criminality, and their relationship to the modern state, in South Asia. Although these social categories have long, complex and often inter-related histories rooted in indigenous and precolonial ideas and institutions, they emerged most forcefully as categories of governance in the legal-political system of the colonial and postcolonial states. These categories remained highly unstable, however. There was a clear disjuncture between forms of ‘colonial’ knowledge which structured legal categorization and everyday negotiations and contestations of the same. Using the example of India’s so-called ‘criminal tribes’ - the 200 or so communities declared as criminals ‘by birth’ under the Criminal Tribes Act (1871) during the colonial regime - we consider broader debates over the governing of ‘colonial’ categories, and subaltern agency and resistance in their making, as a way of interrogating the complex relationship between the ‘margins’ and the state.

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National Robin Hoods and Local Avengers: On Two Shifts in the Criminal Myth of Rayyā and Sakīna in Present Day Egypt

Chiti¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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The article examines bandit myths from a socio-historical perspective, as part of the socio-cultural reality of present-day Egypt. It engages in the semiotics of banditry encouraged by Stephanie Cronin by taking a first step towards a social semiotics analysis of Rayyā and Sakīna, the two Egyptian female criminals par excellence, arrested in 1920 and executed in 1921. I will argue that Rayyā and Sakīna's criminal myth is currently being resignified in terms that can be conceived of as social banditry. Ethnography, press, and broadcast sources help to highlight two different recent shifts towards bandit myths, linked respectively to national and local circulation."Bandits -always fierce.

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Noble Robbers, avengers and entrepreneurs: Eric Hobsbawm and Banditry in Iran, the Middle East and North Africa

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

“Palestine’s Robin Hood”: Abu‐Jildeh and the Making of a Social Bandit

“Palestine’s Robin Hood”: Abu‐Jildeh and the Making of a Social Bandit

Introduction: Margins and the State—Caste, ‘Tribe’ and Criminality in South Asia

National Robin Hoods and Local Avengers: On Two Shifts in the Criminal Myth of Rayyā and Sakīna in Present Day Egypt

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