Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa / edited by Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel.

Other author Beinin, Joel, 1948- editor.
Other author Vairel, Frédéric, 1977- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Descriptionxiv, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Social movements--Political aspects. --Middle East. --Case studies.
Social movements--Political aspects. --Africa, North. --Case studies.
Political participation--Middle East. --Case studies.
Political participation--Africa, North. --Case studies.
Middle East--Politics and government. --1979-.
Africa, North--Politics and government.

SeriesStanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. ^A703302
Contents Introduction : the Middle East and North Africa beyond classical social movement theory / Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel -- Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frédéric Vairel -- Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret -- Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization/demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc -- Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork -- Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep Gülru Göker -- Mobilizations for western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : from the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant -- The Egyptian Jamaa al-Islamiyya as a social movement / Roel Meijer -- Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny -- A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2009 / Joel Beinin -- From Europe to Turkey : a case of the variable value of resources / Emre Öngün -- Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for "apolitical" mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 275-303) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011], ©2011
LCCN 2011003619
ISBN9780804775243 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0804775249 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780804775250 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN0804775257 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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