| Description |
xii, 566 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Middle East today |
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Middle East today.
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| Contents |
Contention and constitutionalisation in the global realm : assessing the uprisings in West Asia and North Africa and their impact on international politics / Jan Wilkens -- Reconceptualizing resistance and reform in the Middle East / Mishana Hosseinioun -- Kuwaiti Arab Spring? : the role of transnational factors in Kuwait's contentious politics / Anastasia Nosova -- The Iraqi independence movement : a case of transgressive contention (1918-1920) / Aula Hariri -- Contentious politics and the Syrian crisis : internationalisation and militarization of conflict / Jasmine Gani -- Foreign engagement in contentious politics : Europe and the 2011 uprisings in Libya / Inez von Weitershausen -- Foreign actors : a double-edged sword hanging over contentious politics in the Middle East / Eugenio Lilli -- Transnationalized domestic contention : explaining the varying levels of Western solidarity given to Kurds and Palestinians / David Zarnett -- The emergence of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement / Suzanne Morrison -- Contentious Copts : the emergence, success and decline of Maspero Youth Movement in Egypt / Magdalena C. Delgado -- From progress to order : the 'Kurdish openings' and the limits to contentious politics in Turkey / Oguzhan Göksel -- Contentious politics and bottom-up mobilisation in revolutionary Egypt : the case of Egyptian football supporters in Cairo / Suzan Gibril -- A Berber Spring : the breakthrough of Amazigh minorities in the uprisings' aftermath / Cleo Jay -- New modes of collective actions : the reemergence of anarchism in Egypt / Laura Galián -- Muslim groups in the Gezi Park protests : Identity politics and contentious politics under authoritarian neoliberalism / Ayse Dursun -- Claiming "marginal space" : the contentious politics of "citizenship" among Palestinian feminists in Israel / Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe -- Characteristics of prolonged social movements : the case of Gezi Park protests / Birce Altiok-Karsiyaka and Kerem Yildirim -- Reassembling the political : placing contentious politics in Jordan / Christopher Parker & Pascal Debruyne -- Contentious economics in Occupied Palestine / Alaa Tartir -- The bottom-up mobilization of Lebanese society against neoliberal institutions : the case of opposition against Solidere's reconstruction of downtown Beirut / Hadi Makarem -- "Iftar" in McDonald's' : the everyday encroachment of Cairo's subaltern cosmopolitans / Harry Pettit |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political participation -- Middle East -- Case studies.
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Social movements -- Political aspects -- Middle East -- Case studies.
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090511 -- 21st century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478 -- Case studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001484
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Gerges, Fawaz A., 1958- editor
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| LC no. |
2015004002 |
| ISBN |
1137537205 |
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1137537213 |
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9781137537201 |
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9781137537218 |
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