LEADER 04878nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910462768903321 005 20190626074746.0 010 $a0-520-95654-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520956544 035 $a(CKB)2670000000390051 035 $a(EBL)1215499 035 $a(OCoLC)852158228 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000917032 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11461528 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917032 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10892325 035 $a(PQKB)10937156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1215499 035 $a(DE-B1597)519698 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520956544 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000390051 100 $a20130501d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe people want$b[electronic resource] $ea radical exploration of the Arab uprising /$fGilbert Achcar 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (323 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-28051-2 311 $a0-520-27497-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Investment 327 $aA 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 Conditions 327 $aThe 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'e?tat 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 Syria 327 $aThe ""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 330 $a""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 s 606 $aArab Spring, 2010- 606 $aProtest movements$zArab countries$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aRevolutions$zArab countries$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aYouth$xPolitical activity$zArab countries 606 $aUnemployment$zArab countries 606 $aInformation technology$xPolitical aspects$zArab countries 607 $aArab countries$xPolitics and government$y21st century 607 $aArab countries$xEconomic conditions$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArab Spring, 2010- 615 0$aProtest movements$xHistory 615 0$aRevolutions$xHistory 615 0$aYouth$xPolitical activity 615 0$aUnemployment 615 0$aInformation technology$xPolitical aspects 676 $a001.3 676 $a909.0974927 700 $aAchcar$b Gilbert$0224354 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462768903321 996 $aThe people want$92488095 997 $aUNINA