num_pages: 352
description: From late 2010 to the present day, the Arab world has been shot through with insurrection and revolt. As a result, Tunisia is now seen as the unlikely birthplace and exemplar of the process of democratisation long overdue in the Arab world.Mixing political, historical, economic, social and cultural analyses and approaches, these essays reflect on the local, regional and transnational dynamics together with the long and short term factors that, when combined, set in motion the Tunisian revolution and the Arab uprisings. Above all, the book maps the intertwined genealogies of cultural dissent that have contributed to the mobilisation of protesters and to the sustenance of protests between 17 December 2010 and 14 January 2011, and beyond.Table of IntroductionPart Roots of DiscontentUnder the Emperor's Neoliberal Clothes! Why the International Financial Institutions Got it Wrong in TunisiaEmma MurphyPlaying the Islamic The Use and Abuse of Religion in Tunisian PoliticsKenneth PerkinsUnited States Policy towards Tunisia since 1956: What New Engagement after an Expendable Friendship?Lofti Ben Rejeb'Friends of Tunisia': French Economic and Diplomatic Support of Tunisian AuthoritarianismAmy Aisen KallanderPart Genealogies of DissentFrom Socio-Economic Protest to National Mapping the Workers Origins of the Tunisian RevolutionSami ZemniThe Powers of Social MediaTarek KahlaouiRethinking the Role of the Media in the Tunisian UprisingRikke Hostrup HaugbolleVisions of Dissent, Voices of Postcolonial Tunisian Film and SongNouri GanaPart The Postrevolutionary MomentFrom Resistance to The Category of Civility in the Political Theory of Tunisian Islamists, Nadia MarzoukiWomen's Rights before and after the RevolutionMonica MarksThe Rise of Salafism and the Future of DemocratizationFabio Merone and Francesco CavatortaThe Fragile Tunisian Democracy-What Prospects for the FutureLise Storm Preserving the ExemplarNouri Gana
language: English
title: The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects
publisher: Edinburgh University Press