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The post Arab spring reform: The maghreb at a cross roads
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
The Arab Spring, which was launched in Tunisia, took the Arab Middle East by storm. Its results, to varying degrees, have been felt in every country in the region. In the Maghreb, three scenarios have been unfolding. Tunisia ...
Tunisia’s peripheral cities: Marginalization and protest politics in a democratizing country
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Middle East Institute
, 2021 , Article)
This article investigates Tunisia's southern "periphery within the periphery," drawing on original interviews to examine marginalization and center-periphery relations in the country since the 2011 revolution. Comparisons ...
Writing democracy: An end of author ‘turn’?: From ‘fake news’ to ‘fake democratization'
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Intellect Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
This article problematizes questions of ontology and epistemology in the context of the study of norm-making primarily within academia (with special reference to democratization) and secondarily within media. It showcases ...
Media-ting democratic literacies
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Intellect Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
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The Tunisian experience post-2011: The crisis of democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2023 , Book chapter)
Offering a critical counter-narrative that upends the received wisdom about Tunisia’s fledgling democracy, the analysis here challenges existing literature on Tunisia’s democratization since the 2011 revolution, eschewing ...
Tunisia’s “civic parallelism”: Lessons for Arab democratization
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Taylor and Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter suggests that knowledge must be situated at the centre of explorations of Arab democratization, primarily through the inclusion of subaltern voices. To demonstrate this line of argument, the chapter addresses ...
The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics
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Taylor & Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ...
Re-visioning Germany's democracy promotion in the Arab World
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
, 2022 , Article)
This article briefly investigates German democracy promotion in the Arab world since the 2011 popular uprisings and revolutions. It seeks a parsimonious discourse analysis, looking at Germany's "democracy-promotion speak" ...
Rethinking unsustainability in Tunisia's sustainable development
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
, 2020 , Article)
This article problematises sustainable development in Tunisia through the lens of regional (under)development. Decades of accumulated imbalances between the country's coastal (Sahel) and southern/interior regions stand as ...
Unruliness through space and time: Reconstructing ‘peoplehood’ in the arab spring
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Taylor and Francis
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter presents a critical account of the phenomenon of the ‘Arab Spring’. This it does via an unorthodox interpretation of why the Arab Spring élan represents a departure point from many 20th-century revolutions. ...