The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring 9781788733168

239 27 3MB

English Pages 304 Year 2020

The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring
9781788733168

0 0 0
Like this paper and download? You can publish your own PDF file online for free in a few minutes! Sign Up

The works collected in The Lure of Authoritarianism consider the normative appeal of authoritarianism in light of the 20

182 39 4MB Read more

The attacks and blockade on Yemen by the Saudi-led multinational coalition have killed thousands and triggered humanitar

173 54 1MB Read more

Analyses the democratic dimension of the recent political changes in MENA Taking a comparative approach, this book cons

119 51 6MB Read more

Why did the Gulf monarchies – and the UAE in particular - avoid the upheavals and challenges of the Arab uprisings? This

160 6 4MB Read more

Post-revolution states often find that once a transition process begins, challenges can arise, such as political polariz

155 30 3MB Read more

The Arab Spring may not have achieved regime change, but the uprising did foster meaningful reforms. Asef Bayat shows ho

126 7 3MB Read more

This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. In this landmark

165 60 2MB Read more

On television, the Arab Spring took place in Cairo, Tunis, and the city-states of the Persian Gulf. Yet the drama of 201

162 33 3MB Read more

This book deals with the waves of revolutions in North Africa labelled as the Arab Spring. Each of the countries in the

154 112 4MB Read more

The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and b

127 105 4MB Read more