Arab revolutions and beyond : the Middle East and reverberations in the Americas / Sabah Alnasseri, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alnasseri, Sabah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Arab countries.

Revolutions.

International relations.

Arab countries--Social conditions.

Arab countries.

Social conditions.

Arab countries--Foreign relations--North America.

North America--Foreign relations--Arab countries.

North America.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

xii, 208 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

Brings together global perspectives on twenty-first century Arab revolutions to theoretically and methodologically link these contemporary uprisings to resistance and protest movements worldwide, above all in the Americas. In their analyses of these transformations, the international contributors engage in an exploration of a variety of themes such as social movements and cultures of resistance, geopolitical economics, civic virtue, identity building, human rights, and foreign economic and political influence. What is the historical significance of these revolutions? What are the implications beyond the Middle East? And how are struggles in other regions of the world being influenced by these events?

Contents:

The geopolitical economy of the Arab revolutions / Radhika Desai

'Dignity' as glocal civic virtue : redefining democracy through cosmopolitics in the era of neoliberal governmentality / Fotini Tsibiridou and Michalis Bartsidis

The Arab revolutions of 2011 and Iran 2009 : identities and differences / Kevin B. Anderson

Human rights from below and international poverty law : comparative aspects of the Arab Spring and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, and their lessons for Latin America and Mexico / Camilo Pérez-Bustillo

Public space without demands : understanding traveling theory and practice in Occupy and transnational protests / Martha Balaguera Cuervo

Class, state, and the Egyptian Revolution / Sabah Alnasseri

A war of position in Palestine / Philip J.M. Leech

Resistant rationalities? Some reflections on Shi'i movements in Lebanon / Sarah Marusek

Coda / Sabah Alnasseri.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137592392

1137592397

OCLC:

946482278