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Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa : Second Edition.
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 mobi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Series Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction: The Middle East and North Africa beyond Classical Social Movement Theory; Part 1. Authoritarianisms and Oppositions; 1. Protesting in Authoritarian Situations: Egypt and Morocco in Comparative Perspective; 2. Egyptian Leftist Intellectuals' Activism from the Margins: Overcoming the Mobilization/Demobilization Dichotomy; 3. Leaving Islamic Activism Behind: Ambiguous Disengagement in Saudi Arabia; 4. Hizbullah's Women: Internal Transformation in a Social Movement and Militia.
- Part 2. Mobilizing for Rights5. Three Decades of Human Rights Activism in the Middle East and North Africa: An Ambiguous Balance Sheet; 6. Unemployed Moroccan University Graduates and Strategies for "Apolitical" Mobilization; 7. Presence in Silence: Feminist and Democratic Implications of the Saturday Vigils in Turkey; 8. Mobilizations for Western Thrace and Cyprus in Contemporary Turkey: From the Far Right to the Lexicon of Human Rights; Part 3. How Arabs Became Revolutionary; 9. Becoming Revolutionary in Tunisia, 2007-2011.
- 10. A Workers' Social Movement on the Margin of the Global Neoliberal Order, Egypt 2004-201211. Dynamics of the Yemeni Revolution: Contextualizing Mobilizations; 12. "Oh Buthaina, Oh Sha'ban-the Hawrani is not Hungry, We Want Freedom!": Revolutionary Framing and Mobilization at the Onset of the Syrian Uprising; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Series List.