Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa

Joel Beinin|Frédéric Vairel

ISBN 10: 0804785686 / ISBN 13: 9780804785686

Published by STANFORD UNIV PR, 2013

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This book offers a nuanced understanding of the contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, local networks, and innovation in contentious action across the Middle East and North Africa to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab w.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
• Publisher: STANFORD UNIV PR
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804785686
• ISBN 13: 9780804785686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen. The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory's classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011.

About the Author

Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University, and a past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He is coeditor of The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford, 2006) and author of The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (2005). He is the series editor of Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Frédéric Vairel is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.