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Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings

English · Hardback

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"Providing a longue durâee perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoãit 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, or the collective force of the people, emerged as a force in 2011, representing itself as the sovereign power that could decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen, Tunisia, but also elsewhere in the Middle East, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence, representation, and democracy."--

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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.

About the author

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).

Summary

Examining the histories of citizenship in Tunisia and Yemen, Benoit Challand explains why violence is often connected to portrayals of the Arab Middle East, arguing that the 2011 Arab Uprisings should be considered a source for democratic theory.

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