Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
By: edited by Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel
Series: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures; Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780804775243; 9780804775250
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Politics and government; Case studies; Political participation; Social movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Middle East and North Africa beyond classical social movement theory / Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel; title: Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frédéric Vairel; title: Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret; title: Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization/demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc; title: Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork; title: Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep Gülru Göker; title: Mobilizations for western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : from the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant; title: The Egyptian Jamaa al-Islamiyya as a social movement / Roel Meijer; title: Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny; title: A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2009 / Joel Beinin; title: From Europe to Turkey : a case of the variable value of resources / Emre Öngün; title: Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for "apolitical" mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon.