Overview
- Offers an original contribution to current social, political and cultural theory on the Arab social movements
- Addresses interdisciplinary scholarship in culture, media, politics, and religious studies
- Provides carefully selected case studies: namely, Egypt, Tunis, Syria, and Yemen
Part of the book series: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice (CPTRP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Rethinking Islamism and the State After the Arab Spring
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People, Media, Power and the State: Civil Society in Postrevolutionary States
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Polarization, Transition and Justice in Postrevolutionary States
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Reviews
“While the world at large may think that the spectacular crescendo of Arab Spring is over, understanding what has exactly happened to the Arab world has just begun. Two seminal scholars of the Arab world, Eid Mohamed and Dalia Fahmy, have gathered in this compendium of critical thinking—Arab Spring:Modernity, Identity and Change—the largely uncharted vicissitude of statecraft and governance as the locus classicus of our understanding of the Arab world—before and after these revolutions. What they have produced will teach us far beyond the surface of the historical unfolding of a world-historic event. They intend changing the very angle of our visions. No serious scholar of these revolutions can afford ignoring this book.” (Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA)
“The rise and fall of the 2011 Arab revolts occasioned a crisis within political Islam in a number of ways. Of course there was the brutal, violent counter-revolution of the 2013 Egyptian coup and the subsequent persecution of all opposition movements. But within political Islam itself, the brief opening of the 2011 period (still partly alive in Tunisia), followed by the anti-political backlash in much of the region has caused something of a rupture in the historical trajectory of political Islam. Is it still possible to orient one’s thinking in terms of an ‘Islamic state’ or an ‘Islamization of modernity’? Or does the encounter with constituent politics in pluralist conditions, the authoritarian-nationalist trajectory of the AKP in Turkey, and the resurgence of anti-democratic neo-Traditionalism require a more radical shift of political and ideological framing on the part of Islamists themselves and scholars who study Islamist movements? This volume, with contributions from many leading scholars of political Islam and Arab politics (including many working and writing within the Middle East) is a crucial resource for answering those questions.” (Andrew F. March, Associate Professor of Political Science, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eid Mohamed is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and US-Arab Cultural Politics at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the University of Guelph, Canada.
Dalia Fahmy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Long Island University, USA.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arab Spring
Book Subtitle: Modernity, Identity and Change
Editors: Eid Mohamed, Dalia Fahmy
Series Title: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24758-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24757-7Published: 17 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24760-7Published: 17 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24758-4Published: 08 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-6580
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Middle Eastern Politics, African Politics, Social Structure, Social Inequality