'Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production: Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367023874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 132 str.

Larbi Sadiki

Opis

This book’s critical focus on local agency in North Africa, namely Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, intends to explore the dynamic facet of ‘democratic learning’ in the popular protests of the ‘Arab Spring’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.

Recenzje

"[It] invites us to critically reflect on the general state of democracy in times of increasingly successful post-factual politics in well-established democracies."
Jan Claudius Völkel, Cairo University, Egypt

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Discoursing ‘democratic knowledge’ & knowledge production in North Africa  2. Maghreb, European neighbour, or Barbary Coast: constructivism in North Africa  3. Towards a ‘democratic knowledge’ turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring  4. Traditions of governance in North Africa  5. The external dimension of Libya’s troubled transition: the international community and ‘democratic knowledge’ transfer  6. Democratisation as a learning process: the case of Morocco  7. Salafism, liberalism, and democratic learning in Tunisia  8. Protests, Islamism and the waning prospect of revolution in Egypt  9. Do Tunisian Secular Civil Society Organisations demonstrate a process of democratic learning?

O autorze

Larbi Sadiki is Professor of Arab democratisation, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University, Qatar. He received his tertiary education at Sydney University, Australia, and obtained his PhD in political science and international affairs, with special reference to the Arab World, at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia. He began his academic career at ANU and was based at Exeter University’s political science department for 12 years before joining Qatar University in 2012. He has been a regular columnist at Al-Jazeera English and has numerous refereed articles in journals such as IJMES, Political Studies, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Third World Quarterly, Journal of North African Studies, Orient, and Democratization.