The people want [[electronic resource] ] : a radical exploration of the Arab uprising / / Gilbert Achcar

• Autore: Achcar Gilbert
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Disciplina: 001.3; 909.0974927
• Soggetto topico: Arab Spring, 2010-; Protest movements - Arab countries - History - 21st century; Revolutions - Arab countries - History - 21st century; Youth - Political activity - Arab countries; Unemployment - Arab countries; Information technology - Political aspects - Arab countries
• Soggetto geografico: Arab countries Politics and government 21st century; Arab countries Economic conditions 21st century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Investment ; A 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 ; The 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 Syria ; The ""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
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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
• Titolo autorizzato: The people want
• ISBN: 0-520-95654-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910531409403321
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