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1 online resource (555 pages). |
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Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I
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Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I.
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Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Series Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction: The Middle East and North Africa beyond Classical Social Movement Theory; Part 1. Authoritarianisms and Oppositions; 1. Protesting in Authoritarian Situations: Egypt and Morocco in Comparative Perspective; 2. Egyptian Leftist Intellectuals' Activism from the Margins: Overcoming the Mobilization/Demobilization Dichotomy; 3. Leaving Islamic Activism Behind: Ambiguous Disengagement in Saudi Arabia; 4. Hizbullah's Women: Internal Transformation in a Social Movement and Militia. |
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Part 2. Mobilizing for Rights5. Three Decades of Human Rights Activism in the Middle East and North Africa: An Ambiguous Balance Sheet; 6. Unemployed Moroccan University Graduates and Strategies for "Apolitical" Mobilization; 7. Presence in Silence: Feminist and Democratic Implications of the Saturday Vigils in Turkey; 8. Mobilizations for Western Thrace and Cyprus in Contemporary Turkey: From the Far Right to the Lexicon of Human Rights; Part 3. How Arabs Became Revolutionary; 9. Becoming Revolutionary in Tunisia, 2007-2011. |
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10. A Workers' Social Movement on the Margin of the Global Neoliberal Order, Egypt 2004-201211. Dynamics of the Yemeni Revolution: Contextualizing Mobilizations; 12. "Oh Buthaina, Oh Sha'ban-the Hawrani is not Hungry, We Want Freedom!": Revolutionary Framing and Mobilization at the Onset of the Syrian Uprising; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Series List. |
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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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Arab Spring (2010-) |
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Social movements -- Political aspects -- Middle East -- Case studies.
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Social movements -- Political aspects. |
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Middle East. |
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Case studies.
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Social movements. |
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Social movements -- Political aspects -- Africa, North -- Case studies.
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North Africa. |
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Political participation -- Middle East -- Case studies.
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Political participation. |
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Political participation -- Africa, North -- Case studies.
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Arab Spring, 2010-
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Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-
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Politics and government. |
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1979- |
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Africa, North -- Politics and government.
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Since 1979 |
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Electronic books.
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Social movements. |
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Case studies.
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Vairel, Frédéric, 1977-
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Print version: Beinin, Joel. Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa : Second Edition. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, ©2013 9780804785693 |
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9780804788038 (electronic book) |
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0804788030 (electronic book) |
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