Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa / / edited by Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel

• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.0956
• Soggetto topico: Social movements - Political aspects - Middle East; Social movements - Political aspects - Africa, North; Political participation - Middle East; Political participation - Africa, North; Arab Spring, 2010-
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Politics and government 1979-; Africa, North Politics and government
• Persona (resp. second.): BeininJoel <1948->; VairelFrédéric <1977->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-321) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the Middle East and North Africa beyond classical social movement theory / Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel -- Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frédéric Vairel -- Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization/demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc -- Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret -- Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny -- Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork -- Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for 'apolitical' mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon -- Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep Gülru Göker -- Mobilizations for Western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : From the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant -- Becoming revolutionary in Tunisia, 2007-2011 / Amin Allal -- A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2012 / Joel Beinin and Marie Duboc -- Dynamics of the Yemeni revolution : contextualizing mobilizations / Laurent Bonnefoy and Marine Poirier -- "Oh Buthaina, oh Shaban--the Hawrani is not hungry, we want freedom!" : revolutionary framing and mobilization at the onset of the Syrian uprising / Reinoud Leenders.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 h
• Titolo autorizzato: Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
• ISBN: 0-8047-8803-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827260103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.