Matteo Capasso is a Marie Curie Global Research Fellow with the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari Universityof Venice, and the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies Department at Columbia University.
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In this compelling book, with its subtle undertones of both humor and tragedy, Matteo Capasso offers us a highly original and massively important exploration of everyday politics in Muammar Qaddafi's Libya.-- "Emma Murphy, Durham University" This book on state-society relations under the Qaddafi rule takes a refreshing approach and offers an important contribution to the literature, marking a welcome addition to the scholarship on Libya's modern history.-- "Alison Pargeter, author of Libya: The Rise of Qaddafi" This original and fluently written account of the ways in which Libyans negotiated with, subverted and accommodated the dictatorship of Muammar Qaddafi, gives us a rare insight into the workings of power from below. In doing so, it restores agency to the regime's subjects, vividly illuminating the politics of the everyday.-- "Charles Tripp, author of The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East"