| Description |
1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Contents |
Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Selected Abbreviations; Introduction: Collaborative Revolutionism; Part 1 Contexts: Roots of Discontent; Chapter 1 Under the Emperor's Neoliberal Clothes! Why the International Financial Institutions Got it Wrong in Tunisia; Chapter 2 Playing the Islamic Card: The Use and Abuse of Religion in Tunisian Politics; Chapter 3 United States Policy towards Tunisia: What New Engagement after an Expendable "Friendship"?; Chapter 4 "Friends of Tunisia": French Economic and Diplomatic Support of Tunisian Authoritarianism |
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Part 2 Architects: Genealogies of DissentChapter 5 From Socio-Economic Protest to National Revolt: The Labor Origins of the Tunisian Revolution; Chapter 6 The Powers of Social Media; Chapter 7 Rethinking the Role of the Media in the Tunisian Uprising; Chapter 8 Visions of Dissent, Voices of Discontent: Postcolonial Tunisian Film and Song; Part 3 Prospects: The Postrevolutionary Moment; Chapter 9 From Resistance to Governance: The Category of Civility in the Political Theory of Tunisian Islamists; Chapter 10 Women's Rights before and after the Revolution |
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Chapter 11 The Rise of Salafism and the Future of DemocratizationChapter 12 The Fragile Tunisian Democracy-What Prospects for the Future?; Postscript: Preserving the Exemplar; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Mixing political, historical, economic, social and cultural analyses and approaches, these essays reflect on the local, regional and transnational dynamics together with the long and short term factors that, when combined, set in motion the Tunisian revolution and the Arab uprisings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Africa -- North.
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HISTORY / Middle East / General
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Tunisia -- History -- Demonstrations, 2010- -- Congresses
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Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 1987-2011 -- Congresses
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Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 2011- -- Congresses
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Tunisia -- Social conditions -- 1987- -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Tunisia
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748691050 |
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0748691057 |
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9780748691067 |
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0748691065 |
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