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Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa

Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa

Volpi, Frédéric

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General Political ScienceInternational Relations

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ISBN10: 0190642920
ISBN13: 9780190642921
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 15 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisation in North Africa.

Drawing on analyses of routine governance and of 'revolutionary' mobilisation in four countries of the Maghreb - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya - before, during and after the 2011 uprisings, Volpi explains the different trajectories of these uprisings by showing how specific acts of protest created new arenas of contention that provided actors with new rationales, practices and, ultimately, identities.

The book illustrates how the dynamics of revolutionary episodes are characterised by the social and political de-institutionalisation of routine mechanisms of (authoritarian) governance. It also details how post-uprising re-institutionalisation and/or conflict are shaped by reconstructed understandings of the uprisings by actors, who are themselves partially the products of these episodes of phenomena.

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