Renegotiating Gender and the State in Tunisia between 2011 and 2014 - Power, Positionality, and the Public Sphere

Anna Antonakis' analysis of the Tunisian transformation process (2011-2014) displays how negotiations of gender initiating new political orders do not only happen in legal and political institutions but also in media representations and on a daily basis in the family and public space. While conventionalized as a "model for the region", this book outlines how the Tunisian transformation missed to address social inequalities and local marginalization as much as substantial challenges of a secular but conservative gender order inscribed in a Western hegemonic concept of modernity. She introduces the concept of "dissembled secularism" to explain major conflict lines in the public sphere and the exploitation of gender politics in a context of post-colonial dependencies. 

List of contents

Exploitation and instrumentalization of women's rights.- Combining public sphere and intersectional theory.- Post-colonial regimes in Tunisia.- Intersectional analysis of transformation, including political institutions, media and associations after the uprisings of 2011.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Antonakis
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2019
• EAN: 9783658256388
• ISBN: 978-3-658-25638-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Illustrations: XXIII, 260 p.
• Series: Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; Soziologie, C, Power, Peace, Media, Sociology, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, International Relations, biotechnology, Identity Politics, Political Science and International Studies, Knowledge - Discourse, Gender studies, gender groups, Peace studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Politics and Gender, Sociology of Knowledge and Discourse, Peace and Conflict Studies, women’s rights, Positionality, Renegotiating Gender, critical security studies, Post-colonial regimes in Tunisia