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Arab Spring: Uprisings, Powers, Interventions

Arab Spring: Uprisings, Powers, Interventions

Fosshagen, Kjetil

Paperback

Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis, Book 14

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1782384650
ISBN13: 9781782384656
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Mar 1 2014
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.26 Width: 4.37 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, and relationships. This volume delves beneath the seemingly chaotic nature of events to explore the structural dynamics underpinning popular resistance and their support or suppression. It moves beyond what has usually been defined as Arab Spring nations to include critical views on Bahrain, the Palestinian territories, and Turkey. The research and analysis presented explores not just the immediate protests, but also the historical realization, appropriation, and even institutionalization of these critical voices, as well as the role of international criminal law and legal exceptionalism in authorizing humanitarian interventions. Above all, it questions whether the revolutions have since been hijacked and the broad popular uprisings already overrun, suppressed, or usurped by the upper classes.

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