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From Silence to Protest
The editors of this book examine social movement scholars’ use of contemporary concepts and paradigms in the study of protest as they analyse the extent to which these tools are valid (or not) in very different regional - and thus political or cultural - contexts. The authors posit that ’weakly resourced groups’ are a particularly useful point of departure to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of three key social movement schools of analysis: resource mobilization, political opportunity structures, and frame analysis. Some of the groups considered in this volume are financially disadvantaged, lacking money and work; others are economically disadvantaged, with members having precario...
Handbook on Urban Social Movements
Providing an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of both empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on understanding better how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Smugglers and States
Smuggling is typically thought of as furtive and hidden, taking place under the radar and beyond the reach of the state. But in many cases, governments tacitly permit illicit cross-border commerce, or even devise informal arrangements to regulate it. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the borderlands of Tunisia and Morocco, Max Gallien explains why states have long tolerated illegal trade across their borders and develops new ways to understand the political economy of smuggling. This book examines the rules and agreements that govern smuggling in North Africa, tracing the involvement of states in these practices and their consequences for borderland communities. Gallien demonstrates that, co...
Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen. The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory's classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011.
The Political Science of the Middle East
A definitive overview of what political scientists are working on within the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In The Political Science of the Middle East, Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom present the definitive overview of this pathbreaking turn. This is a monumental stocktaking organized around a singular theme: new theorizing from the MENA has advanced the frontiers of comparative politics and international relations, and the close-range study of the region occupies a core place in mainstream political science. Its dozen chapters cover...
Immigration Nation
An examination of the role played by aid, from donors, International Organisations and NGOs, in everyday border and migration control.
Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean
The aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe
Les soulèvements populaires en Tunisie et en Égypte, avec la chute de Ben Ali et de Moubarak, ont produit un effet de démonstration des défauts de la cuirasse de régimes apparemment forts. Leurs succès ont favorisé une propension à l’action dans d’autres pays arabes, au sein de sociétés dont les revendications et les régimes ne sont pas forcément identiques. Ils ont ainsi ouvert un cycle de mobilisations qui, pour l’heure, n’est pas clos. Mais peut-on parler vraiment de révolution ? De ces affrontements ont surgi de nouvelles façons d’envisager les rapports de pouvoir, et c’est sans doute là que réside la principale « révolution » : une transformation en cours dans les relations politiques, qui place l’ensemble des protagonistes des scènes politiques arabes sous le signe de l’incertitude. Les auteurs s’appuient sur une connaissance de première main des terrains étudiés et prennent en compte la diversité des contextes pour expliquer ces événements et leurs répercussions au-delà de la rue.
Terrains de campagne au Maroc. Les élections législatives de 2007
Pour ceux qui, depuis le début des années 1990, annoncent la démocratisation du régime marocain, les législatives de septembre 2007 ont constitué une nouvelle étape dans la libéralisation politique du pays. En privilégiant une lecture ethnographique des mobilisations et en explorant les terrains de la campagne électorale, cet ouvrage s'intéresse aux acteurs de l'évolution de l'élection "vus d'en bas" : depuis les meetings, dans les campagnes de porte-à-porte, au sein des équipes de soutien des partis, voire des associations qui s'engagent dans le scrutin. Quelles stratégies électorales mettent-ils en oeuvre ? A qui s'adressent-ils ? Comment s'organisent les réseaux électoraux pour convaincre et remporter les votes ?
20 فبراير ومآلات التحول الديمقراطي في المغرب
صدر عن سلسلة "دراسات التحول الديمقراطي" في المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات كتاب "20 فبراير ومآلات التحول الديمقراطي في المغرب" (مجموعة مؤلفين)، وهو يُعنى بدراسة التجربة المغربية في عُقب الحراك الشبابي والشعبي في عام 2011 وتحليلها، على نحوٍ موصول بالفترة التي سبقتها والفترة التي تليها، من دون أن يروم مقارنةً للانتقال الديمقراطي، ولا سيما بالنسبة إلى التجارب الدولية المعاصرة الرائدة في مجال التحول الديمقراطي.
