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Title:

Contentious politics in the Middle East : popular resistance and marginalized activism beyond the Arab uprisings / edited by Fawaz A. Gerges.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 566 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Political participation--Middle East--Case studies.
Social movements--Political aspects--Middle East--Case studies.
Middle East--Politics and government--21st century--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Gerges, Fawaz A., 1958- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Contention and constitutionalisation in the global realm : assessing the uprisings in West Asia and North Africa and their impact on international politics / Jan Wilkens -- Reconceptualizing resistance and reform in the Middle East / Mishana Hosseinioun -- Kuwaiti Arab Spring? : the role of transnational factors in Kuwait's contentious politics / Anastasia Nosova -- The Iraqi independence movement : a case of transgressive contention (1918-1920) / Aula Hariri -- Contentious politics and the Syrian crisis : internationalisation and militarization of conflict / Jasmine Gani -- Foreign engagement in contentious politics : Europe and the 2011 uprisings in Libya / Inez von Weitershausen -- Foreign actors : a double-edged sword hanging over contentious politics in the Middle East / Eugenio Lilli -- Transnationalized domestic contention : explaining the varying levels of Western solidarity given to Kurds and Palestinians / David Zarnett --
The emergence of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement / Suzanne Morrison -- Contentious Copts : the emergence, success and decline of Maspero Youth Movement in Egypt / Magdalena C. Delgado -- From progress to order : the 'Kurdish openings' and the limits to contentious politics in Turkey / Oguzhan G©œksel -- Contentious politics and bottom-up mobilisation in revolutionary Egypt : the case of Egyptian football supporters in Cairo / Suzan Gibril -- A Berber Spring : the breakthrough of Amazigh minorities in the uprisings' aftermath / Cleo Jay -- New modes of collective actions : the reemergence of anarchism in Egypt / Laura Gali©Łn -- Muslim groups in the Gezi Park protests : Identity politics and contentious politics under authoritarian neoliberalism / Ayse Dursun -- Claiming "marginal space" : the contentious politics of "citizenship" among Palestinian feminists in Israel / Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe --
Characteristics of prolonged social movements : the case of Gezi Park protests / Birce Altiok-Karsiyaka and Kerem Yildirim -- Reassembling the political : placing contentious politics in Jordan / Christopher Parker & Pascal Debruyne -- Contentious economics in Occupied Palestine / Alaa Tartir -- The bottom-up mobilization of Lebanese society against neoliberal institutions : the case of opposition against Solidere's reconstruction of downtown Beirut / Hadi Makarem -- "Iftar" in McDonald's' : the everyday encroachment of Cairo's subaltern cosmopolitans / Harry Pettit.

Series:

Middle East today

ISBN:

1137537205
9781137537201
1137537213
9781137537218

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908838467

LCCN:

2015004002

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)