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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beinin, Joel
Other Authors: Vairel, Frédéric
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Series:Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (555 pages)
ISBN:9780804788038
0804788030