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Tunisian Revolutions

Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and Interiors
  • ISBN-13: 9781626162310
  • Publisher: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Julia Clancy-Smith
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 21/12/2014
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 52 pages Weight: 113g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation presented economic and political oppression by the Ben Ali regimes as the root causes of widespread social despair that triggered the Tunisian revolution. Yet as Julia Clancy-Smith points out, Tunisia's long history of organized political activism and protest movements suggests a far more complicated set of processes. Proposing a conceptual framework of "coastalization" vs. "interiorization," Clancy-Smith examines Tunisia's last two centuries and demonstrates how geographical and environmental and social factors also lie behind that country's modern political history. Within this framework Clancy-Smith explores how Tunisia's coast became a Mediterranean playground for transnational elites, a mecca of tourism, while its interior agrarian regions suffered increasing neglect and marginalization. This distinction has had a profound impact on the fate of Tunisia and has manifested itself in divisive debates over politics, the state, and religion as well as women's socio-legal status that have led to a series of mass civic actions culminating in revolution. Clancy-Smith proposes a fresh historical lens through which to view the relationship between spacial displacements, regionalization, and transnationalism. Georgetown Shorts-longer than an article, shorter than a book-deliver timely works of peer-reviewed scholarship in a fast-paced, agile environment. They present new ideas and original texts that are easily and widely available to students, scholars, libraries, and general readers.
Introduction 1. Preludes and Postscripts: Of Baguettes and Social Protest2. Coastalization: Agriculture, Colonialism, and the Granary of Rome 3. Coastalization and Globalization: Tourism, Profane and Sacred 4. Mediterranean Women, Politics, and Islam 5. Mediterranean Games, Politics, and Dissent6. From Sidi Bou Sa id to Sidi Bouzid: Targets and Symbols Conclusion Notes
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