Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Contextualizing the Arab Spring Uprisings: Different Regimes, Different Revolutions, and Different Trajectories....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Contention and Constitutionalization in the Global Realm: Assessing the Uprisings in West Asia and North Africa and Their Impact On International Politics....Pages 25-50
Reconceptualizing Resistance and Reform in the Middle East....Pages 51-73
Kuwaiti Arab Spring? the Role of Transnational Factors in Kuwait’s Contentious Politics....Pages 75-95
The Iraqi Independence Movement: a Case of Transgressive Contention (1918–1920)....Pages 97-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Contentious Politics and the Syrian Crisis: Internationalization and Militarization of the Conflict....Pages 127-153
Foreign Engagement In Contentious Politics: Europe and the 2011 Uprisings in Libya....Pages 155-168
Foreign Actors: a Double-Edged Sword Hanging Over Contentious Politics in the Middle East....Pages 169-195
Transnationalized Domestic Contention: Explaining The Varying Levels Of Western Solidarity Given To Kurds And Palestinians....Pages 197-228
The Emergence of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement....Pages 229-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Contentious Copts: the Emergence, Success, and Decline of the Maspero Youth Movement in Egypt....Pages 259-280
From Progress to Order: the “Kurdish Openings” and the Limits to Contentious Politics in Turkey....Pages 281-303
Contentious Politics and Bottom-Up Mobilization in Revolutionary Egypt: the Case of Egyptian Football Supporters in Cairo....Pages 305-329
A Berber Spring: the Breakthrough of Amazigh Minorities in the Uprisings’ Aftermath....Pages 331-347
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
New Modes of Collective Actions: The Reemergence of Anarchism in Egypt....Pages 351-371
Muslim Groups in the Gezi Park Protests: Identity Politics and Contentious Politics Under Authoritarian Neoliberalism....Pages 373-390
Claiming “Marginal Space“: the Contentious Politics of “Citizenship“ Among Palestinian Feminists in Israel....Pages 391-414
Characteristics of Prolonged Social Movements: the Case of Gezi Park Protests....Pages 415-435
Reassembling the Political: Placing Contentious Politics in Jordan....Pages 437-465
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
Contentious Economics in Occupied Palestine....Pages 469-499
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
The Bottom-Up Mobilization of Lebanese Society Against Neoliberal Institutions: the Case of Opposition Against Solidere’S Reconstruction of Downtown Beirut....Pages 501-521
“Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: the Everyday Encroachment of Cairo’s Subaltern Cosmopolitans....Pages 523-546
Conclusion....Pages 547-551
Back Matter....Pages 553-566