This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings. The common thread among the contributions is an interest in the micro-level interactions between various strategic players, including not only the mobilisation of protestors during the uprisings but also the responses of regimes. The book also examines short to medium-term adaptations of the regimes and the collective action of opponents in the post-uprisings period, as well as the subsequent trajectories of the protesters themselves in the face of new forms of authoritarianism or democratisation.
This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings.
Preface by Frédéric Volpi and James M. Jasper, Introduction: Rethinking
Mobilization after the Arab Uprisings. James M. Jasper and Frédéric Volpi 1:
The Social Life of Contentious Ideas: Piracy and Unruly, Trans-Local
Appropriation in the Arab Uprisings and Beyond. John Chalcraft 2: Routines
and Ruptures in Anti-Israeli Protests in Jordan. Jillian Schwedler 3: Shaping
Contention as a Salafi Movement: The Rise and Fall of Ansar al-Sharia in
Post-Revolutionary Tunisia. Frédéric Volpi 4: Contingency and Agency in a
Turning Point Event: March 18th, 2011 in Daraa, Syria. Wendy Pearlman 5: It
Takes Two (or More) to Tango: the Local Coproduction of the Alexandrian
Revolutionary Moment. Youssef El Chazli 6: Violence, Social Actors, and
Subjectivation in the Egyptian Revolution. Farhad Khosrokhavar, Conclusion:
Unruly Protest. Charles Kurzman
Frédéric Volpi is Senior Lecturer in international politics at the School of International Relations of the University of St Andrews. James M. Jasper is a sociologist at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has each written a number of books on recent social movements, and is the co-editor of book series, Protest and Social Movements.
