Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten
Reihe: Critical South
Mapping Resistance in the Arab World
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten
Reihe: Critical South
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7179-6
Verlag: Polity Press
The question of dignity is central to the popular revolts and revolutions that have characterized the Mediterranean Arab world from the 1950s to the present. Whether demanded, declared or chanted, dignity – karama in Arabic – stirs up emotions and political aspirations. It also reveals the intrusion of the political into the personal, and the multiple forms of dispossession faced by populations attempting to live their lives (or merely survive) under authoritarian regimes. Yet if we look at the literature on the Arab revolts, there is very little discussion of dignity. Commentators focus mostly on the pursuit of freedom, democracy and justice, while the desire for dignity has been largely ignored.
The aim of this book is to redress this neglect by exploring the revolts in the Mediterranean Arab world through the lens of struggles for dignity. The volume includes a wide range of case studies, from Syria, Lebanon and Egypt to Tunisia and Algeria, and offers a rich and illuminating perspective on the struggles for dignity in the region, both in the dramatic moments of revolutionary upheaval and in the cooler times of everyday struggles. All the contributors to this volume adopt a micro-historical approach, observing the relations between places and experiences of revolt and using maps to show how revolts are embedded in people's lives. By giving a central place to the spatial dimension, this mode of representation proves to be particularly effective as a means for grasping the multiplicity of entanglements between the terrain of life, territory and revolt. By placing life experiences at the centre, it thereby offers a novel way for observing and describing the meanings of a dignified life.
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction. Revolts of Dignity: (Un)liveable Worlds and Struggles for Existence – Leyla Dakhli and Laurence Dufresne Aubertin
Part 1: Trajectories
2. From Choucha to La Marsa, From the Desert to the Coast: The Obstructed Path of Hammed, an Ivorian Exile Refused Asylum in Tunisia (2011–2024) – Laurie Merigeaud
3. 'Constant Dropping Wears Away Stone': Trajectories of Resistance on the Social Housing Waiting List in Algeria – Laurence Dufresne Aubertin
4. From the Tobacco Fields: The (Non) Trajectory of a Lebanese Revolutionary Activist (1947–1973) – Kinda Chaib
5. The Paths to Emancipation: The Lives of Three Women in the Tunisia of the 1960s–1980s – Leyla Dakhli
Part 2: Moments
6. On the Threshold of Dignity: The Significance of Crossing a Bridge. The Insurrections of 1946, 1977 and 2011 in Egypt – Mélanie Henry
7. 'The Day we were Determined': The Ghosts of 26 January 1978 – Arwa Labidi
8. 'Ulad al-Jbal': The Children of the Red Mountain Across Two Revolts (1984–2011) – Leyla Dakhli and Inès Delpuech
9. Reclaiming Dignity by Taking to the Streets: The Student Demonstration of 12 April 2011 in Algiers – Layla Baamara
Part 3: Situations
10. Hide and Seek: Political Struggle and Clandestine Printing in 1980s Syria – Waël Ali and Simon Dubois
11. Know Yourself. and Know Your Enemy: Fields of Knowledge and Fields of Battle in the Palestinian Revolution (1965-1982) – Candice Raymond
12. October 1988 from the Perspective of Algerian Journalists: The Ardour of a Collective –Chloé Nejma Rondeleux
13. 'Next Year He Will Fall': A Story from Syria's Suspended Revolution – Dunia al-Dahan
14. Mapping Ghorba – Nayera Abdelrahman Soliman
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