Format:
xix, 391 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9780192863997
Content:
This book offers a novel and interdisciplinary exploration of revolution as situated protest in Tunisia. Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh present extensive local evidence to demonstrate that popular resistance has been a mainstay of modern Tunisia before, during, and after colonialism. Protest makes peoplehood, and peoplehood makes protest: neither is self-contained. The book explores the rich history and diversity of insurrectionary politics in Tunisia from the onset of protests in the 1960s up to the 2011 Arab Spring revolution and beyond, exploring bottom-up activism (hirak) and revolution (thawrah). The six protestscapes presented in the volume (unions, student activists, the phosphate uprising, the 2010-11 revolution, Kamour, and football ultras) offer a novel way of examining partial 'moving snapshots' that are crucial to understanding revolution. They counter the prevailing narrative of revolution as leaderless, a spontaneous surprise with no historical pedigree or inherited learning, and depict instead an active citizenry whose collective memories are stamped by trials of anti-colonial and anti-dictatorial rebellion.
Content:
Postgraduate, Research, and Scholarly: academics and students in the fields of Middle Eastern and North African Politics, Revolution and Protest, and Middle Eastern History
Note:
Literaturhinweise, Register
,
Trace of a Revolution: Tunisia's 'Missing People' in Time and Space
,
Tunisian Protestscapes: (En)Acting Peoplehood
,
Striking Back: A Century of UGTT, and Workers' Syndicalism
,
Dissent of the Mind: 100 Years of Student Activism
,
Miners' Voices: Revolution in Miniature in the Phosphate Basin
,
Becoming in Diachrony: The Revolution of 2011
,
The 'Kamour': A Periphery Uprise
,
Tunisia's Ultras: The 'Freeplay' of Resistance
,
Conclusion: Taming the Revolution
Language:
English
Keywords:
Tunesien
;
Protestbewegung
;
Revolution
;
Geschichte
