The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects

Gana, Nouri

ISBN 10: 0748691049 / ISBN 13: 9780748691043

Edité par Edinburgh University Press, 2013

2013. 1st Edition. Paperback. From late 2010 onwards, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation in the Arab world. This is a full history of the Tunisian revolution, from its roots decades ago to the process of becoming a democracy. Editor(s): Gana, Nouri. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBT; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; HBTV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. N° de réf. du vendeur V9780748691043

Synopsis :

This is a full history of the Tunisian revolution, from its roots decades ago to the ongoing process of becoming a democracy. From late 2010 to the present day, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation long overdue in the Arab world. Mixing political, historical, economic, social and cultural analyses and approaches, these essays reflection 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. Above all, the book maps the intertwined genealogies of cultural dissent that contributed to the mobilisation of protesters and sustained the protests between 17th December 2010 and 14th January 2011, and beyond. It features 13 essays by an international and interdisciplinary set of experienced and emerging scholars who are active in researching and writing about the Tunisian and Arab Spring revolutions. It maps the origins of the Tunisian revolution, seeing it as an event that was years in the making after decades of 'collaborative revolutionism' across spaces, places and generations. It explores the various traditions of dissent under Bourguiba and Ben Ali. It includes important reflections on the major debates that dominated the post-revolutionary scene and continue to inform the transition to democracy.

À propos de l?auteur: Nouri Gana is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell University Press, 2011).

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Titre : The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: ...
Éditeur : Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition : 2013
Reliure : Couverture souple
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