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Subject(s)

• Tunisia—History—Demonstrations, 2010-—Congresses [Browse]
• Tunisia—Politics and government—1987-2011—Congresses [Browse]
• Tunisia—Politics and government—2011-—Congresses [Browse]
• Tunisia—Social conditions—1987-—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Gana, Nouri [Browse]

Notes

"The making of the Tunisian revolution : contexts, architects, prospects grew out of a one-day conference 'Mapping and remapping the Tunisian revolution,' held on Friday, May 20, 2011 at the University of California, Los Angeles"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-321) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : collaborative revolutionism / Nouri Gana
• Part 1. Contexts : roots of discontent. Under the emperor's neoliberal clothes! : why the international financial institutions got it wrong in Tunisia / Emma C. Murphy ; Playing the Islamic card : the use and abuse of religion in Tunisian politics / Kenneth Perkins ; United States policy towards Tunisia : what new engagement after an expendable "friendship"? / Lofti Ben Rejeb ; "Friends of Tunisia" : French economic and diplomatic support of Tunisian authoritarianism / Amy Aisen Kallander
• pt. 2. Architects : genealogies of dissent. From socio-economic protest to national revolt : the labor origins of the Tunisian revolution / Sami Zemni ; The powers of social media / Tarek Kahlaoui ; Rethinking the role of the media in the Tunisian uprising / Rikke Hostrup Haugbølle ; Visions of dissent, voices of discontent : postcolonial Tunisian film and song / Nori Gana
• pt. 3. Prospects : the postrevolutionary moment. From resistance to governance : the category of civility in the political theory of Tunisian Islamists / Nadia Marzouki ; Women's rights before and after the revloution / Monica Marks ; The rise of Salafism and the future of democratization / Fabio Merone and Francesco Cavatorta ; The fragile Tunisian democracy : what prospects for the future? / Lise Storm
• Postscript : preserving the exemplar / Nori Gana.

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ISBN

• 9780748691043 (pbk.)
• 0748691049 (pbk.)
• 9780748691036 (hbk.)
• 0748691030 (hbk.)

OCLC

854617210

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