Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Joel Beinin and Frederic Vairel
Imprint
Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2011
Descript
xiv, 308 pages ; 24 cm
CONTENT
pt. 1. Authoritarianisms and oppositions. Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frโedโeric Vairel -- Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret -- Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization / demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc -- pt. 2. Mobilizing for rights. Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork -- Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep G่ulru G่oker -- Mobilizations for western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : from the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant -- pt. 3. Islamic social movements. The Egyptian Jama'a al-Islamiyya as a social movement / Roel Meijer -- Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny -- pt. 4. Labor struggles. A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2009 / Joel Beinin -- From Europe to Turkey : a case of the variable value of resources / Emre ่Ong่un -- Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for "apolitical" mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon
SUBJECT
Social movements -- Political aspects -- Middle East -- Case studies
Social movements -- Political aspects -- Africa
North -- Case studies
Political participation -- Middle East -- Case studies