Benoit Challand

Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing a longue duree perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoit 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108788854
• Artikelnr.: 68954859

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.