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9781137537218

Contentious Politics in the Middle East Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings

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    9781137537218

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    1137537213

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2015-09-10
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

While the Arab people took center stage in the 'Arab Spring' protests, academic studies focus on state structure, regime nature, militaries, and external powers to understand popular uprisings in the Middle East. Contentious Politics in the Middle East redresses a gap in focus as it analyzes the complexities of popular agency through the framework of contentious politics theory, without neglecting the negotiations between the people and structural factors. The book's chapters apply familiar questions raised by theorists to the under-researched case study of the Middle East after the uprisings. Edited by Fawaz A. Gerges and featuring insights from top scholars, this collection seeks to answer these important questions as it advances contentious politics theory.

Author Biography

Fawaz A. Gerges is Professor of International Relations and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment? and The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global. He has written extensively on Arab politics and the international relations of the Middle East. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the Independent. His books have been translated into a number of foreign languages.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Contextualizing The Arab Uprisings: Different Regimes, Different Revolutions And Different Trajectories; Fawaz A Gerges
PART I
1. Contention And Constitutionalisation In The Global Realm: Assessing The Uprisings In West Asia And North Africa For International Politics; Jan Wilkens
2. Reconceptualizing Resistance And Reform In The Middle East; Mishana Hosseinioun
3. Kuwaiti Arab Spring? The Role Of Transnational Factors In Kuwait's Contentious Politics; Anastasia Nosova
4. The Iraqi Independence Movement: A Case Of Transgressive Contention; Aula Hariri
PART II
5. Contentious Politics And The Syrian Crisis: Internationalisation And Militarisation Of Conflict; Jasmine Gani
6. Foreign Engagement In Contentious Politics: Europe And The 2011 Uprisings In Libya; Inez Von Weitershausen
7. Foreign Actors: A Double-Edged Sword Over Contentious Politics In The Middle East; Eugenio Lilli
8. Transnationalized Domestic Contention: Explaining The Varying Level Of Western Solidarity Given To Kurds And Palestinians; David Zarnett
9. The Emergence Of The Boycott, Divestment, And Sanctions Movement; Suzanne Morrison
PART III
10. Contentious Copts: The Emergence, Success And Decline Of Maspero Youth Movement In Egypt; Magdalena C. Delgado
11. From Progress To Order: The 'Kurdish Openings' And Limits To Contentious Politics In Turkey; Oguzhan Göksel
12. Contentious Politics And Bottom-Up Mobilisation In Revolutionary Egypt: The Case Of Egyptian Football Supporters In Cairo; Suzan Gibril
13. A Berber Spring: The Breakthrough Of Amazigh Minorities In The Uprisings' Aftermath; Cleo Jay
PART IV
14. New Modes Of Collective Actions: The Reemergence Of Anarchism In Egypt; Laura Galián
15. Muslim Groups In The Gezi Park Protests: Identity Politics And Contentious Politics Under Authoritarian Neoliberalism; Ayse Dursun
16. Claiming 'Marginal Space': The Contentious Politics Of 'Citizenship' Among Palestinian Feminists In Israel; Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe
17. Characteristics Of Prolonged Social Movements: The Case Of Gezi Park Protests; Birce Altiok-Karsiyaka And Kerem Yildirim
18. Reassembling The Political: Placing Contentious Politics In Jordan; Christopher Parker & Pascal Debruyne
PART V
19. Contentious Economics In Occupied Palestine; Alaa Tartir
20. The Bottom-Up Mobilization Of Lebanese Society Against Neoliberal Institutions: The Case Of Opposition Against Solidere's Reconstruction Of Downtown Beirut; Hadi Makarem
21. Iftar In Mcdonald's: The Everyday Encroachment Of Cairo's Subaltern Cosmopolitans; Harry Pettit
Conclusions; John Chalcraft


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