Arab Spring and Peripheries
The emerging literature on the so-called Arab Spring has largely focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power centres. In order to reach a more diversified and inner understanding of the Arab Spring, this book examines how peripheries have reacted and contributed to the historical dynamics at work in the Middle East and North Africa. It rejects the idea that the Arab Spring is a unitary process and shows that it consists of diverse Springs that differed in terms of opportunity structure, the strategies of a variety of actors and outcomes. This book looks at geographical, religious, gender and ethnic peripheries, conceptualizing periphery as a dynamic structure that can expand and contract. It shows that the seeds for changing the face of politics and polities are within peripheries themselves. Focusing on the voices of peripheries can therefore be a powerful tool to de-simplify the reading of the Arab Spring and to reshape the paradigmatic schemes through which to look at this part of the world. This book was published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.
Daniela Huber is a senior fellow at the Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in the Mediterranean and Middle East programme and a Gerda Henkel Guest Researcher at LUISS University. She holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA degree in International Relations from the Free University of Berlin. Her research interests include EU and US foreign policies in the Middle East, the regional and international dimension of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and contemporary politics in the Middle East. She has worked for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Tel Aviv and Berlin and as a Carlo Schmid Fellow at the United Nations in Copenhagen.
Lorenzo Kamel is a Marie Curie fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and a senior fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). He holds a two-years MA in Israeli Society and Politics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a PhD in History from Bologna University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Universitys CMES. His publications include about thirty academic articles on journals such as the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Eurasian Studies, and 4 authored books, including Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times (I.B. Tauris 2015).
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Twenty Years of Euro-Mediterranean Relations
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Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya
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Carmen Geha
Arab Spring and Peripheries
A Decentring Research Agenda
Daniela Huber
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Arab Spring and Peripheries
A decentring research agenda
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Contents
| Daniela Huber and Lorenzo Kamel |
| Edwige A. Fortier |
| Maryam Khalid |
| Mark Farha and Salma Mousa |
| Sylvia I. Bergh and Daniele Rossi-Doria |
| ngela Surez Collado |
| Irene Fernndez-Molina |
| Khaled Elghamry |
| Lorenzo Kamel and Daniela Huber |
The chapters in this book were originally published in Mediterranean Politics, volume 20, issue 2 (July 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Arab Spring: The Role of the Peripheries
Daniela Huber and Lorenzo Kamel
Mediterranean Politics, volume 20, issue 2 (July 2015) pp. 127141
Transition and Marginalization: Locating Spaces for Discursive Contestation in Post-Revolution Tunisia
Edwige A. Fortier
Mediterranean Politics, volume 20, issue 2 (July 2015) pp. 142160
The Peripheries of Gender and Sexuality in the Arab Spring
Maryam Khalid
Mediterranean Politics, volume 20, issue 2 (July 2015) pp. 161177
Secular Autocracy vs. Sectarian Democracy? Weighing Reasons for Christian Support for Regime Transition in Syria and Egypt
Mark Farha and Salma Mousa
Mediterranean Politics, volume 20, issue 2 (July 2015) pp. 178197
Plus a Change? Observing the Dynamics of Moroccos Arab Spring in the High Atlas
Sylvia I. Bergh and Daniele Rossi-Doria
Mediterranean Politics, volume 20, issue 2 (July 2015) pp. 198216
Territorial Stress in Morocco: From Democratic to Autonomist Demands in Popular Protests in the Rif
