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The Arab Spring Between Transformation and Capture
Autonomy, Media and Mobility in Tunisia
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2020
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The Tunisian revolution raises important questions regarding the articulation of resistance and political subjectivity in the context of global governmentality. By drawing from political theory, philosophy, ethnography and readings of local street art, this book restores the radical significance of the political event as an instance of possible collective action.
Using the 2011 Tunisian revolution as a starting point for a broader discussion, this book analyses the processes of Orientalisation of non-Western examples of collective action and critiquing the narrative frame of the ‘Arab Spring’. By focusing on the aspect of autonomous mobilities and transformations, occurred within a beyond the Tunisian space, Oana Pârvan is able answer key questions including, how moments of political rupture (such as revolutions) are interpreted by the wider public and how mobility across the Mediterranean rearticulates the distribution and recomposition of political theory categories such as class. She narrates how the Tunisian revolution can be inscribed into a long history of dispossession (colonial, regional, neoliberal) and resistance; and the culture and practices of the Tunisian revolutionaries have spread in the country and abroad (seen as a way to think beyond the methodological framework of the nation-state).
This work builds on research fieldwork and the analysis of Tunisian street art (mostly of the Ahl Al Kahf collective), drawing from migration-centred ethnographic work in order to suggest a reconstruction of the event. By applying theoretical reflections inspired by continental philosophy, media theory and autonomy of migration theory, this work develops an event-based theoretical reflection able to contribute towards rethinking contemporary Orientalism, self-representation and political subjectivity.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-476-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-477-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
218
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1. The “Arab Spring” No access Pages 13 - 42
2. The Event of Resistance and Its Capture No access Pages 43 - 68
3. A Microhistory of the Tunisian Revolution No access Pages 69 - 100
4. Histories of Dispossession and Contemporary Vanguards No access Pages 101 - 144
5. Mediation of an Event No access Pages 145 - 176
