04878nam 2200733Ia 450 991053140940332120190626074746.00-520-95654-010.1525/9780520956544(CKB)2670000000390051(EBL)1215499(OCoLC)852158228(SSID)ssj0000917032(PQKBManifestationID)11461528(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917032(PQKBWorkID)10892325(PQKB)10937156(MiAaPQ)EBC1215499(DE-B1597)519698(DE-B1597)9780520956544(EXLCZ)99267000000039005120130501d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe people want[electronic resource] a radical exploration of the Arab uprising /Gilbert AchcarBerkeley University of California Press20131 online resource (323 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28051-2 0-520-27497-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Notes; On the Arab Countries and ""The Middle East and North Africa"" (MENA); On Transliteration of Arabic; Introduction: Uprisings and Revolutions; 1. Fettered Development; The Facts; Poverty, Inequality, Precarity; Informal Sector and Unemployment: The Bouazizi Syndrome; Youth Underemployment; Female Underemployment; Graduate Unemployment; Fetters on Development; 2. The Peculiar Modalities of Capitalism in the Arab Region; The Problem of Investment; Public and Private InvestmentA Specific Variant of the Capitalist Mode of Production1. Rentier and Patrimonial States; 2. A Politically Determined Capitalism: Nepotism and Risk; The Genesis of the Specific Regional Variant of Capitalism: an Overview; 3. Regional Political Factors; The Oil Curse; From ""Arab Despotic Exception"" to ""Democracy Promotion""; The Muslim Brothers, Washington, and the Saudis; The Muslim Brothers, Washington, and Qatar; Al Jazeera and the Upheaval in the Arab Mediascape; 4. Actors and Parameters of the Revolution; Overdetermination and Subjective ConditionsThe Workers' Movement and Social StrugglesNew Actors and New Information and Communications Technologies; States and Revolutions; 5. A Provisional Balance Sheet of the Arab Uprising; Coups d'état and Revolutions; Provisional Balance Sheet No. 1: Tunisia; Provisional Balance Sheet No. 2: Egypt; Provisional Balance Sheet No. 3: Yemen; Provisional Balance Sheet No. 4: Bahrain; Provisional Balance Sheet No. 5: Libya; Provisional Balance Sheet No. 6: Syria; 6. Co-opting the Uprising; Washington and the Muslim Brothers, Take Two; Nato, Libya, and SyriaThe ""Islamic Tsunami"" and the Difference between Khomeini and MorsiConclusion: The Future of the Arab Uprising; The Difference between Erdogan and Ghannouchi . . .; . . . And the Difference between Erdogan and Morsi; Conditions for a Genuine Solution; Notes; References and Sources; Index""The people want . . ."": This first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters since 2011 revealed a long-repressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic problems were also laid bare by the protestors' demands. Simplistic interpretations of the uprising that has been shaking the Arab world since a young street vendor set himself on fire in Central Tunisia, on 17 December 2010, seek to portray it as purely political, or explain it by culture, age, religion, if not conspiracy theories. Instead, Gilbert Achcar locates the deep roots of the upheaval in the sArab Spring, 2010-Protest movementsArab countriesHistory21st centuryRevolutionsArab countriesHistory21st centuryYouthPolitical activityArab countriesUnemploymentArab countriesInformation technologyPolitical aspectsArab countriesArab countriesPolitics and government21st centuryArab countriesEconomic conditions21st centuryElectronic books.Arab Spring, 2010-Protest movementsHistoryRevolutionsHistoryYouthPolitical activityUnemploymentInformation technologyPolitical aspects001.3909.0974927Achcar Gilbert224354MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910531409403321The people want2762995UNINA