Social Movements Mobilization And Contestation In The Middle East And North Africa

Author : Joel Beinin,Frédéric Vairel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804788038

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Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa by Joel Beinin,Frédéric Vairel Pdf

Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen. The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory's classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011.

Author : Frédéric Volpi,Janine A. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000011821

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Network Mobilization Dynamics in Uncertain Times in the Middle East and North Africa by Frédéric Volpi,Janine A. Clark Pdf

This comprehensive volume investigates the dynamics of mobilization and demobilization of social networks before, during, and after episodes of political turbulence in the Middle East region, focusing particularly on the 2011 Arab uprisings. The authors consider important questions regarding agency, strategic action, and institutional outcomes that have significance for social mobilization, social movements, and authoritarian governance. This collection proposes an interactive perspective linking up contentious politics with routine governance through a dynamic articulation of repertoires of contention. The authors use a micro-mobilization perspective to frame the different trajectories of protest networks in times of uncertainty. They place the interactions between grassroots activists, structured organizations, and state actors at the centre of the explanation of change and stability in the recent mobilizations of the region. By starting with descriptions of interactions at the grassroots level, the authors then explain macro level dynamics between networks and other players, including the state. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Social Movement Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789004344518

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Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean by Anonim Pdf

This collection problematizes the relationship between protests and generations. It examines how the production of generations relates to mobilization, forms of protest, and the generation of memory. It explores genealogies of generational formations in popular protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean.

Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher : Springer
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137530868

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Contentious Politics in the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges Pdf

While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.

Author : Joel Beinin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804798648

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Workers and Thieves by Joel Beinin Pdf

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In Tunisia, years prior to the 2011 Arab uprisings, the unemployed chanted in protest, "A job is a right, you pack of thieves!" Despite this history, most observers have failed to acknowledge the importance of workers in the social ferment preceding the removal of Egyptian and Tunisian autocrats and in the political realignments after their demise. In Workers and Thieves, Joel Beinin corrects this by surveying the efforts and impacts of the workers' movements in Egypt and Tunisia since the 1970s. He argues that the 2011 uprisings in these countries—and, importantly, their vastly different outcomes—are best understood within the context of these repeated mobilizations of workers and the unemployed over recent decades.

Author : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Referat Internationale Politikanalyse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3864983975

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The Future We the People Need by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Referat Internationale Politikanalyse Pdf

Author : Manfred Halpern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1067962932

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The Politics of Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa by Manfred Halpern Pdf

Author : Sanja Kelly,Julia Breslin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442203976

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Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa by Sanja Kelly,Julia Breslin Pdf

Freedom HouseOs innovative publication WomenOs Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance analyzes the status of women in the region, with a special focus on the gains and setbacks for womenOs rights since the first edition was released in 2005. The study presents a comparative evaluation of conditions for women in 17 countries and one territory: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (Palestinian Authority and Israeli-Occupied Territories), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The publication identifies the causes and consequences of gender inequality in the Middle East, and provides concrete recommendations for national and international policymakers and implementers. Freedom House is an independent nongovernmental organization that supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights. The project has been embraced as a resource not only by international players like the United Nations and the World Bank, but also by regional womenOs rights organizations, individual activists, scholars, and governments worldwide. WomenOs rights in each country are assessed in five key areas: (1) Nondiscrimination and Access to Justice; (2) Autonomy, Security, and Freedom of the Person; (3) Economic Rights and Equal Opportunity; (4) Political Rights and Civic Voice; and (5) Social and Cultural Rights. The methodology is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the study results are presented through a set of numerical scores and analytical narrative reports.

Author : Navid Pourmokhtari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000391657

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Iran's Green Movement by Navid Pourmokhtari Pdf

This book examines the emergence and development of the 2009 Green Movement in Iran. The approach emphasizes the context and the local and historical specificities in which mass oppositional movements arise, develop and conduct their operations. Meanwhile, it foregrounds an account of multiple modernities that work to transcend modernist assumptions. The volume describes and analyzes the power modalities—disciplinary, biopolitical, and sovereign—employed by the Islamic Republic to governmentalize the masses. Bearing a triangular methodology, the book consists of six semi-structured interviews with authorities and activists who participated in the pivotal events of that period; discourse analysis focusing on the Iranian constitution and the relevant government policy documents and speeches; and archival analysis. These provide the historical background, perspectives and insights required to analyze and explicate the conditions responsible for the emergence of the Green Movement and to grasp how collective action was enabled and organized. Marking a particular historical phase in the development of a home-grown democracy in post-revolutionary Iran, the Green Movement is transforming the country’s political landscape. This book is a key resource to students and scholars interested in comparative politics, Iranian studies and the Middle East.

Author : Ozgun Topak,Merouan Mekouar,Cavatorta
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1474489419

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New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa by Ozgun Topak,Merouan Mekouar,Cavatorta Pdf

Examines new authoritarian practices and state control in MENA countries to target and neutralise dissidents

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108425643

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Seeking Legitimacy by Aili Mari Tripp Pdf

A comparative study based on extensive fieldwork, and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Aili Mari Tripp analyzes why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Author : Roksana Bahramitash,Hadi Salehi Esfahani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137481429

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Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa by Roksana Bahramitash,Hadi Salehi Esfahani Pdf

Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa examines the shortcomings of the economic development policies in the region before and after the Arab uprisings. Many MENA countries tried to pursue neoliberal policies to boost economic growth. However, the outcome was associated with rising and disproportionate unemployment among the youth and women. The focal point of the book is the role of gender and the ways in which policies translate into economic outcomes. Particular attention is paid to women's entrepreneurship, especially as owners of small and medium enterprises, which, as the authors argue, can potentially reduce unemployment and poverty for the population as a whole. The book offers perspectives on wholesome policies that take account of issues concerning gender and youth and, thus, contribute to lower unemployment and reduced poverty and inequity.

Author : Janine A. Clark,Francesco Cavatorta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190882969

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Political Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa by Janine A. Clark,Francesco Cavatorta Pdf

"Political Research in the Middle East and North Africa focuses specifically on doing research in one of the most important regions in contemporary world politics. It is also one of the most difficult areas to do research in given the current high levels of violence, political instability, and authoritarianism that plague the region. Gathering together a large and diverse group of researchers who study the region, Janine Clark and Francesco Cavatorta's volume will serve as a foundational methods guide for young academics on how to conceive and carry out their research projects. At the same time the topics in the book provide a useful refresher to more established scholars so that their methodological training and ethical considerations keep pace with novel approaches and changing obstacles in the field. What makes this volume especially useful is its focus on methodological 'lessons learned' from the contributors' first hand experiences. Each chapter deals with the challenges of implementing qualitative and quantitative methods in the field, the real-life obstacles encountered and the possible solutions to overcoming them. It will therefore be an invaluable companion book to more standard methods books, which focus on the 'how to' of methods but are often devoid of any real discussion of the challenges of on-the-ground fieldwork."--Publisher's summary.

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191003516

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Mobilizing for Democracy by Donatella della Porta Pdf

Strangely enough, while the pictures used to illustrate the most recent wave of protests for democracy in North Africa represent mass protest, research on social movements and democratization have rarely interacted. This volume aims to fill this gap by looking at episodes of democratization through the lens of social movement studies. Without assuming that democratization is always produced from below, the author singles out different paths of democratization by looking at the ways in which the masses interact with the elites, and protest with bargaining: eventful democratization, participated pacts and troubled democratization. The main focus is on the first of the paths: eventful democratization, that is cases in which authoritarian regimes break down following-often short but intense-waves of protest. Recognizing the particular power of some transformative events, the analysis locates them within the broader mobilization processes, including the multitude of less visible, but still important protests that surround them. Cognitive, affective and relational mechanisms are singled out as transforming the contexts in which dissidents act. In all three paths, mobilization of resources, framing processes and appropriation of opportunities will develop in action, in different combinations. The comparison of different cases within two waves of protests for democracy, in Central Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, allows the author to theorize about causal mechanisms and conditions as they emerge in mobilizations for democracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004369498

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Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period by Anonim Pdf

Moving from tourism to health propaganda, marriage to beauty contest, mass communication to music, Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period offers a vibrant and dynamic picture of the region which goes beyond state borders.