The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748691030 ISBN 13: 9780748691036

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

From late 2010 to the present day, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation long overdue in the Arab world.

Mixing political, historical, economic, social and cultural analyses and approaches, these essays reflect on the local, regional and transnational dynamics together with the long and short term factors that, when combined, set in motion the Tunisian revolution and the Arab uprisings. Above all, the book maps the intertwined genealogies of cultural dissent that have contributed to the mobilisation of protesters and to the sustenance of protests between 17 December 2010 and 14 January 2011, and beyond.

About this title

About the Author

Nouri Gana is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA.

He is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (2011) and editor of The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (EUP, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

Review

"The Making of the Tunisian Revolution is what an edited volume about Tunisia should be: holistic, polemic, and strategically incendiary."

--Claire Oueslati-Porter, Florida International University, Middle East Media and Book Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0748691030
• ISBN 13: 9780748691036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Gana Nouri