The people want [[electronic resource] ] : a radical exploration of the Arab uprising / / Gilbert Achcar |
Autore | Achcar Gilbert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-520-95654-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462768903321 |
Achcar Gilbert | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The people want [[electronic resource] ] : a radical exploration of the Arab uprising / / Gilbert Achcar |
Autore | Achcar Gilbert |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-520-95654-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910531409403321 |
Achcar Gilbert | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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