The Arab Spring Between Transformation and Capture - Autonomy, Media and Mobility in Tunisia

This book provides a detailed analysis of the narrative frame of the 'Arab Spring' and unpacks the process of the Tunisian revolution beyond national borders, discussing the importance of migration for different examples of collective action.

List of contents

Preface

Introduction

1. The 'Arab Spring': The Projection of a 'Familiar' Revolution

2. The Event of Resistance and Its Capture

3. A Microhistory of the Tunisian Revolution. The Struggle of the Disenfranchised

4. Histories of Dispossession and Contemporary Vanguards

5. Mediation of An Event. Circulation of Cultures and Practices of Resistance

Conclusion

Index

About the author

Oana Pârvan is an Assistant Lecturer (within the BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and a Visiting Lecturer (at a postgraduate level, teaching Practices of the Cultural Industry) at Goldsmiths University. She is also a member of the research and practice network Sound System Outernational and takes interest in popular music cultures.
Her work was published on Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal, darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture and MetaMute. (Academia Profile: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/OanaParvan )

Product details

• Authors: Oana Parvan, Oana Pârvan, Pârvan Oana, Oana PGrvan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781786614766
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-476-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Politics of Autonomy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Politics & government, Political science & theory