Contentious Politics in the Middle East:
Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings
- 566 p., 23 cm
- Middle East Today .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contextualizing the Arab uprisings : different regimes, different revolutions and different trajectories / Fawaz A Gerges -- Contention and constitutionalisation in the global realm : assessing the uprisings in West Asia and North Africa for 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 / Aula Hariri -- Contentious politics and the Syrian crisis : internationalisation and militarisation 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 over contentious politics in the Middle East / Eugenio Lilli -- Transnationalized domestic contention : explaining the varying level 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 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 -- Conclusions / John Chalcraft.
9781137537201
Political participation--Middle East--Case studies.
Social movements--Political aspects--Middle East--Case studies.
Middle East--Politics and government--21st century--Case studies
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contextualizing the Arab uprisings : different regimes, different revolutions and different trajectories / Fawaz A Gerges -- Contention and constitutionalisation in the global realm : assessing the uprisings in West Asia and North Africa for 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 / Aula Hariri -- Contentious politics and the Syrian crisis : internationalisation and militarisation 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 over contentious politics in the Middle East / Eugenio Lilli -- Transnationalized domestic contention : explaining the varying level 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 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 -- Conclusions / John Chalcraft.
9781137537201
Political participation--Middle East--Case studies.
Social movements--Political aspects--Middle East--Case studies.
Middle East--Politics and government--21st century--Case studies