Network Mobilization Dynamics in Uncertain Times in the Middle East and North Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367730437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 142 str.

Fr?d?ric Volpi; Janine A. Clark

Opis

This book investigates the dynamics of mobilization and demobilization of social networks before, during and after episodes of political turbulence in the Middle East, focusing on the 2011 Arab uprisings. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Social Movement Studies.

Spis treści

1. Activism in the Middle East and North Africa in times of upheaval: social networks’ actions and interactions  2. Between rebellion and uprising intersecting networks and discursive strategies in rebel controlled Syria  3. From local revolutionary action to exiled humanitarian work: activism in local social networks and communities’ formation in the Syrian post-2011 context  4. Together all the way? Abeyance and co-optation of Sunni networks in Lebanon  5. Politics of a garbage crisis: social networks, narratives, and frames of Lebanon’s 2015 protests and their aftermath  6. Local mobilisations and the formation of environmental networks in a democratizing Tunisia  7. From contestation to conciliation: social networks and engagement in the unemployed graduates movement in Morocco  8. Afterword: comparative versus historical research

O autorze

Frédéric Volpi is Professor in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Janine A. Clark is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph, Canada.