Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings - Benoît Challand

Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49018-4 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
Examining the histories of citizenship in Tunisia and Yemen, Benoît Challand explains why violence is often connected to portrayals of the Arab Middle East, arguing that the 2011 Arab Uprisings should be considered a source for democratic theory.
Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle East, from a condition of latent citizenship in the colonial and post-independence era to the revolutionary dynamics that stimulated democratic participation. Considering the parallel histories of citizenship in Yemen and Tunisia, Challand develops innovative theories of violence and representation that view cultural representations as calls for a decentralized political order and democratic accountability over the security forces. He argues that a new collective imaginary emerged in 2011 when the people represented itself as the only legitimate power able to decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen and Tunisia, but also elsewhere in the Middle East, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence, representation, and democracy.

Benoît Challand is Associate Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has published widely on civil society in the Middle East, including Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude (2009), The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance (co-edited with F. Bicchi and S. Heydemann, 2016), and Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory and Identity (co-authored with Chiara Bottici, 2013).

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Prolegomenon: a two-layered book; Introduction; Part I. The Making of Latent Citizenship: 1. Revisiting the foundations of citizenship: the Colonial era; 2. Post-independence aspirations, security custodianship and latent citizenship; Part II. Informal Revolutionary Practices (2011–2014): 3. The three facets of vis populi: re-articulating active citizenship; 4. Revolutionary crossroads: security reform and the limits of informalism; Part III. Embattled Revolutionary Legacies (2014–2021): 5.Two tales of decentralization; 6. Strong men syndrome and the re-subjectivation of citizenship; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Global Middle East
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 820 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-108-49018-2 / 1108490182
ISBN-13 978-1-108-49018-4 / 9781108490184
Zustand Neuware
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