How to be a "democrat" and a "Muslim" at the same time is the subject of ongoing contests. This book maps out the variety of voices contesting "Islam" and "democracy" in the Arab world, insisting that neither category can be taken as unitary or fixed. In the Arab Middle East, the contest is over "which," "whose," and "how much" democracy takes place within an existing contest over "which," "whose," and "how much" Islam must be given pre-eminence in the political and cultural sphere. There is a "Democracy" and there are "democracies." There is an "Islam" and there are "islams." Larbi...
How to be a "democrat" and a "Muslim" at the same time is the subject of ongoing contests. This book maps out the variety of voices contesting "Islam"...
Rethinking Arab Democratization unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It provides a balance sheet of the state of Arab democratization from the mid-1970s up to 2008. In seeking to answer the question of how Arab countries democratize and whether they are democratizing at all, the book pays attention to specificity, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. To this end, it situates the discussion of such transitions firmly within their local contexts, but...
Rethinking Arab Democratization unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Ar...
Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power (Sadiki, 2004). How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the first time. This edited volume seeks to unpack the state of the democratic void in three interrelated fields: democracy, legitimacy and social relations. In doing so, the conventional treatment of democratization as a linear, formal, systemic and systematic process is challenged and...
Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power (Sadiki, 2004). How society seek...
What is the nature of the symbiosis of the 'Arab Spring' and 'democratisation'? How does democratisation lend support to the 'Arab Spring'? In turn, how does the 'Arab Spring' lend sparkle to 'democratisation'? What are the wider reverberations of this political 'tsunami' within and without the Middle East? How do they inform the 'story' of democracy and democratisation? This book seeks to answer these questions, both theoretically and empirically.
What is the nature of the symbiosis of the 'Arab Spring' and 'democratisation'? How does democratisation lend support to the 'Arab Spring'? In turn, h...
Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region. Democratisation and democracy received fresh attention in the Arab Spring . Arab citizens displayed their grasp and possession of democratic knowledge in a bottom-up groundswell of activism against the wielding of power by authoritarian regimes. In this book, the investigation into democratic knowledge revolves around the idea that good government must be in the first instance rooted in a...
Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitali...
The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the Arab Spring, a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval.
The meme of the Arab Spring is characterised by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring seeks to provide a departure point for ongoing discussion of a fluid phenomenon on a plethora of topics, including:
Contexts and contests of democratisation
The sweep of the...
The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the Arab Spring, a startling, yet not unprecedented, e...
