Tunisia's marginalized redefine the political
In: Middle East report: Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Volume 298
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In: Middle East report: Middle East research and information project, MERIP, Volume 298
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In: International journal of urban and regional research, Volume 41, Issue 1, p. 70-83
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractThis article engages in the debate on urban contentious politics by returning to the Tunisian revolution. In the article, I chart movements provoked by neoliberal restructurings, and show how these ultimately came together to form a mass movement demanding radical political change. I first describe the socio‐spatial roots of the Tunisian revolution to understand its dynamics. Based on the chronology of the unfolding events I sketch the classes, social groups and movements that coalesced against authoritarian rule in early 2011. Although the Tunisian revolution started in rural environments, I focus more specifically on the role of urban social movements in the uprising to link questions of urbanism to what were clearly national revolts. Secondly, I outline the scope of neoliberal reforms in Tunisia by looking at the impact of these reforms to chart the resulting emergence of contentious politics in response to the increasing violence that characterized all levels of economic life during this period. I also consider the resulting uneven development and the changing relations between the state and the different social classes. This enables me to reflect on the politicization of the city with the aim of opening up new opportunities for engaging with a more comparative and cosmopolitan theory about cities around the world.
In: Mediterranean politics, Volume 20, Issue 1, p. 1-17
ISSN: 1354-2982, 1362-9395
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In: Mediterranean politics, Volume 20, Issue 1, p. 1-17
ISSN: 1743-9418
In: Salafismus in Deutschland: Entstehung, Radikalisierung und Prävention, p. 153-171
In: Race & class: a journal for black and third world liberation, Volume 53, Issue 1, p. 28-44
ISSN: 1741-3125
The author discusses the way in which Islam has been cast as a political problem in Belgium and how Muslims have, particularly in Flanders, become framed by politicians and commentators in the media as a threat. The actual socioeconomic difficulties that Muslims (particularly those of Turkish and Moroccan descent) face are being redrawn as problems stemming from their culture and religion. State agencies are trying to shape the political organisation that will represent Belgian Muslims, as the issue of Islam is increasingly debated in terms of the 'clash of civilisations', and secularism and the Enlightenment are linked in public debate with a Christian Europe.
In: Samenleving en politiek: Sampol ; tijdschrift voor en democratisch socialisme, Volume 18, Issue 3, p. 80-87
ISSN: 1372-0740
In: Res publica: politiek-wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Lage Landen ; driemaandelijs tijdschrift, Volume 50, Issue 3, p. 303-318
ISSN: 0486-4700
In: Res publica: politiek-wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Lage Landen ; driemaandelijks tijdschrift, Volume 50, Issue 3, p. 303-318
ISSN: 0486-4700
In: Res publica: politiek-wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de Lage Landen ; driemaandelijks tijdschrift, Volume 50, Issue 3, p. 303-318
ISSN: 0486-4700
In 2008, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders (Partij voor de Vrijheid PVV, Party For Freedom) published on the Internet his film Fitna, discussing the Islam in what the author of the present article calls an amateurish series of stereotypes, prejudices, decontextualized images and (purposeful) mistranslations. The Dutch debate surrounding the movies was almost exclusively directed in terms of freedom of opinion and expression, and their alleged threat. An upheaval amongst the Dutch political elite and within media circles that was, however, disappointingly short. In the present article, the author discusses the obsession for Islam as a symptom of growing political incapacity to make a rational and nuanced analysis of the diversity and complexity of the Islam on the one hand, and the role and place of religion in the 21st century in general. The first part is a criticism of the conducted debate, the second part an effort to formulate the right questions that can lead to some realistic answers. References. O. van Zijl
In: Internationale spectator, Volume 61, Issue 7-8, p. 394
ISSN: 0020-9317
In: Mediterranean politics, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 231-253
ISSN: 1354-2982, 1362-9395
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In: Mediterranean politics, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 231-253
ISSN: 1743-9418
In: Mediterranean politics, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 231-254
ISSN: 1354-2982, 1362-9395