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Re-Configurations : Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ouaissa, Rachid.
Other Authors: Pannewick, Friederike., Strohmaier, Alena.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Re-Configurations
  • Acknowledgement
  • Contents
  • Editors and Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Re-Configurations as Dynamic Processes of Change
  • References
  • Political Re-Configurings and Transregional Ties
  • Spatializing Memory and Justice in Transformation Processes
  • Memory and Justice from National to Global and Back to Local
  • Spatializing the Entanglement of Local and Global2
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Tunisia's Re-Configurations and Transitional Justice in Process: How Planned Processes of Social and Political Change Interplay with Unplanned Political Dynamics
  • Introduction
  • Background: What Past is Tunisia's Transitional Justice Process Confronting?
  • Introducing the "Process Gap" in Transitional Justice and a Framework for Analysis
  • Tunisia's Transitional Justice in Process: Empirical Illustration
  • Initiating Transitional Justice
  • Designing Transitional Justice
  • Performing Transitional Justice
  • Conclusion and Outlook
  • References
  • Algeria: Between Transformation and Re-Configuration
  • The Nature of the State in Algeria
  • Hirak: A New Kind of Protest Movement
  • References
  • The International and the Construction of Opposition in Iran
  • Opposition in Autocracies
  • The International and the Construction of Political Opposition
  • The International as a "Generalized Standpoint" and Provider of Norms
  • The International as a Space of Belonging
  • The International as a Comparative Horizon
  • Summary
  • References
  • Tangier's Current Re-Configurations from a Multi-Scale Spatial Perspective: Emerging Transregional Ties and Local Repercussions
  • Introduction: Local and (Trans-)Regional Re-Configurations
  • Contemporary Mega-Projects Re-Configuring Tangier
  • Intervening Actors and Institutions
  • Integrating Policies, Programs, and Infrastructure Networks
  • Emerging Connections, Entanglements, and Flows.
  • Strengthened Competition and Strategic Positioning
  • Increasing Fragmentation, Territorialization, and Other Problems
  • Conclusion: Re-Configurations of an Emerging "Secondary City" with Transregional Links, Embedded in Multiple Scales
  • References
  • 1968 and the "Long 1960s": A Transregional Perspective
  • Historicizing the 1960s
  • Deciphering the "Long 1960s" and 1968
  • Trans-MENA in Southeast Asia-The "other 1960s"?
  • Re-Configurations
  • References
  • Social Re-Configurings and Generational Challenges
  • The Survival of the Kurdish Chicken: Uneven Development and Nationalist Discourse in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
  • Research Question and Positionality
  • The Chicken on the Roof
  • Nationalism, Uneven Development, and Neoliberalism
  • Change, Continuity, and the Chicken
  • The (A-)Political at the End
  • References
  • The Infantilization of the Colonized: Medical and Psychiatric Descriptions of Drinking Habits in the Colonial Maghreb
  • Levels of Infantilization
  • Drinking Incorrectly
  • Immature Bodies
  • Lessons on Drinking
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • National Memory in the Making: Gendered Re-Configurations of Martyrdom in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
  • Arab Masculinities in Question
  • Fieldwork: Investigating a Polarized Context
  • The Early Days of the Revolution: The Impulsive Designation of "Martyrs"
  • A Strategic Cause on the Post-Revolutionary Stage
  • Suspicious Masculinities: In Search of the "Fake" Martyrs of the Revolution
  • Subaltern Voices and Alternative Narratives
  • "Martyrs of the Nation": The Consecration of Militarized Masculinities
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Teachers' Resistance to Educational Change and Innovations in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Tunisian Universities
  • Materials and Methods
  • Populations
  • Results and Discussion
  • Extrinsic Barriers
  • Intrinsic Barriers.
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • The Role of Social Movements in the Re-Configuration of Youth Transition Regimes: The Biography of an Unemployed Graduates Activist in Morocco
  • Introduction
  • Life-Courses in Youth Transition Regimes
  • Morocco: The Unemployed Graduates Movement and Its Historical Context
  • A Precarious Cycle of Lifelong Learning
  • Protest as Part of the Transition
  • The "Arab Spring" as a Rupture: Ushering in the End of the Movement?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Family Memories and the Transmission of the Independence Struggle in South Yemen
  • Introduction
  • The Role of Family Memories in Contexts of Defeats
  • The Transmission of Independence in Families
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Aesthetic Re-Configurings and the Politics of Change
  • On the Re-Configurations of Cinematic Media-Spaces: From Diaspora Film to Postdiaspora Film
  • Introduction1: "Diaspora is Highly Contemporary"
  • From Exile to Diaspora
  • Beyond Hybridity
  • Conclusion: "Postdiaspora is an Emancipatory Move"
  • References
  • The Metamorphosis of the Significance of Death in Revolutionary Times: Mohammad Rabie's Otared (2014)
  • Introduction
  • Violent Death: Between the Derealization of the Living and the Martyrization of the Dead
  • Death and Fear in Post-2011 Dystopias: The Example of Mohammad Rabie's Otared
  • 2011: Hope as the Grim Reaper
  • "2025": "Marters of the Reverlooshun!"
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Processing the Revolution: Exploring the Ways Tunisian Novels Reflect Political Upheavals
  • Introduction
  • Why Analyze Literature?
  • Literary Prizes and Their Influence: The Prix LitteĢraires Comar d'Or
  • Individual Impressions of Socio-Political Change
  • Family Drama Beats Revolutionary References
  • Political Upheavals and the Personal Sphere
  • Conclusion
  • References.
  • Transformations of the "Syrian" Literary Field Since 2011
  • The Field
  • Trends of Internationalization
  • Translations
  • Challenges to the Hierarchies of the Field
  • Arab Media
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • The Year 1979 as a Turning Point in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to Critical Humanism
  • Politicization and Commitment in the Wake of 1967
  • Between Commitment and Despair
  • From Didactic Theatre to Psychological Studies
  • References.

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