Abeyance networks, contingency and structures

Hmed, Choukri; Raillard, Sarah-Louise

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“…During the uprising, institutional support from the UGTT contributed to the scaling up of more limited forms of contention and to the uniting of diverse groups behind common anti-incumbancy demands. In this sense, abeyant organizational structures were key in transforming parochial forms of contention into mass-based demonstrations for democracy (Hmed 2012). A particular word used by trade unionists in Tunisia-ta' _ tīr-eloquently articulates this process.…”

Section: Democratization and Contentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second understanding of ta' _ tīr-as encadrementinvokes the coordination function of institutional actors and their role in brokering a collective mobilization effort. Local instances of the UGTT represented a "melting pot" (Hmed 2012) of civil servants and other public functionaries with the requisite networks to coordinate action and subsume otherwise unaffiliated youth or peripheral civil society actors under a common front (Yousfi 2015). As one interviewee put it: "you've got different sorts of people on protests, upstanding people and not so upstanding" and so it was necessary that the UGTT "encadre [yu'at.ir] the protestors."…”

Section: Democratization and Contentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution

Barrie

2023

Perspect. polit.

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Revolutionary protest rarely begins as democratic or revolutionary. Instead, it grows in a process of positive feedback, incorporating new constituencies and generating new demands. If protest is not revolutionary at its onset, theory should reflect this and be able to explain the endogenous emergence of democratic demands. In this article, I combine multiple data sources on the 2010–2011 Tunisian Revolution, including survey data, an original event catalogue, and field interviews. I show that the correlates of protest occurrence and participation change significantly during the uprising. Using the Tunisian case as a theory-building exercise, I argue that the formation of protest coalitions is essential, rather than incidental, to democratic revolution.

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Section: Democratization and Contentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Democratization and Contentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution

Barrie

2023

Perspect. polit.

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“…We now explore these concerns as they relate to the wave of mass protest that unfolded in Egypt and Tunisia during the Arab Spring and its aftermath. The Egyptian and Tunisian cases are notable for witnessing relatively brief episodes of mass mobilization within short succession of one another, with both episodes culminating in the ousting of a seemingly well-entrenched authoritarian (Gunning and Baron 2013;Hmed 2015;Ketchley 2017). Both countries also saw sustained protest during post-breakthrough democratic transitions.…”

Section: Mass Mobilization In Egypt and Tunisiamentioning

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Fridays of Revolution: Focal Days and Mass Protest in Egypt and Tunisia

Ketchley

Barrie

2019

Political Research Quarterly

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Focal days of protest are increasingly common to episodes of revolutionary mobilization. This paper explores the significance of focal days in patterning sustained protest in Egypt and Tunisia from 2011 to 2012. In Egypt, resource-poor activists exploited the confluence of worshippers on Fridays to mobilize mass transitory protest. This reliance on ritualized action hindered cross-sectoral coordination and meant mass protest often failed to inflict a direct economic cost. In Tunisia, there was no focal day of protest, in large part due to the coordinating hand of trade unions. In consequence, mass protest was more likely to span multiple sites, sectors, and tactics. These results suggest that oppositions can sustain mass mobilization even absent organizational capacity, but a reliance on a focal day limits the potential of protest over a political transition. Supplementary analyses point to the applicability of our findings to a number of other Arab Spring countries.

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“…But, despite media portrayals, this was not a spontaneous event, but an “insurrectional moment” (Baduel 2013). The uprisings linked “the actions of political activists and local union members with the collective rioting of neighborhoods, where the young people itching for a fight finally confronted the police” (Hmed 2012, 38). Local members of the UGTT, rights activists, and cause lawyers who had grassroots organizing experience played an important role in the growing politicization of the Sidi Bouzid uprising.…”

Section: Dissonance: Tba's Membership Versus Its Leadership In the Tumentioning

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Tunisia's “Revolutionary” Lawyers: From Professional Autonomy to Political Mobilization

Gobe¹,

Salaymeh

2016

Law soc. inq.

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On January 14, 2011, after twenty‐three years in power and one month of popular protest demanding his resignation, President Ben Ali fled Tunisia. Lawyers, wearing their official robes, had marched frequently in the uprising's demonstrations. By engaging with and supporting the uprising, lawyers—both the profession in general and the bar's leadership—gained considerable symbolic influence over the post‐uprising government that replaced Ben Ali's regime. This article outlines the various forms of political lawyering undertaken by Tunisian lawyers and their professional associations from Tunisia's independence to post‐uprising transitions. We demonstrate that economic concerns, professional objectives, and civic professionalism contributed to the collective action of Tunisian lawyers before and after the uprising. Tunisian lawyers moved beyond the realm of their profession to adopt a role as overseers of the post‐uprising government.

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Abeyance networks, contingency and structures

Cited by 6 publications

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The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution

The Process of Revolutionary Protest: Development and Democracy in the Tunisian Revolution

Fridays of Revolution: Focal Days and Mass Protest in Egypt and Tunisia

Tunisia's “Revolutionary” Lawyers: From Professional Autonomy to Political Mobilization

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