Del 21 - The Global Middle East

Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Benoît Challand, Benoît Challand, New York) Challand, Benoit (The New School, Benoît

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Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle East, from a condition of latent citizenship in the colonial and post-independence era to the revolutionary dynamics that stimulated democratic participation. Considering the parallel histories of citizenship in Yemen and Tunisia, Challand develops innovative theories of violence and representation that view cultural representations as calls for a decentralized political order and democratic accountability over the security forces. He argues that a new collective imaginary emerged in 2011 when the people represented itself as the only legitimate power able to decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen and Tunisia, but also elsewhere in the Middle East, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence, representation, and democracy.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-09
Mått157 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt820 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Global Middle East
Antal sidor482
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108490184

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Benoît Challand is Associate Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has published widely on civil society in the Middle East, including Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude (2009), The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance (co-edited with F. Bicchi and S. Heydemann, 2016), and Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory and Identity (co-authored with Chiara Bottici, 2013).

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Prolegomenon: a two-layered book; Introduction; Part I. The Making of Latent Citizenship: 1. Revisiting the foundations of citizenship: the Colonial era; 2. Post-independence aspirations, security custodianship and latent citizenship; Part II. Informal Revolutionary Practices (2011–2014): 3. The three facets of vis populi: re-articulating active citizenship; 4. Revolutionary crossroads: security reform and the limits of informalism; Part III. Embattled Revolutionary Legacies (2014–2021): 5.Two tales of decentralization; 6. Strong men syndrome and the re-subjectivation of citizenship; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

'Empirically rich and theoretically compelling, Challand's book has much to tell us about how informality generates formal political change, collective imaginaries and “latent citizenship”, and how violence, creatively understood, responds to the shackles of what can appear to be an unshakable reality. A splendid work that communicates with theory from the Global South and helps us rethink democratic theory based on the Arab uprisings.' Mohammed Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh