New Arab Revolutions That Shook the World

Khosrokhavar, Farhad

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“…However, migrants still participate in this collective search for human dignity, ignited in Tunisia and rapidly spreading throughout North Africa. The uprising is not a revolution in classical political terms as the world media defines it; we agree with Khosrokhavar's (2012) interpretation of it as political action to support human dignity to overcome religion and community defence (Umma). These events can be interpreted as the first manifestation of an emerging civil sphere (Alexander 2006), where subjective aims are pursued by claiming personal rights and fulfilling the need to choose an individual destiny.…”

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confidence: 64%

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Tunisian migrants’ journey through the Mediterranean

Esu¹,

Maddanu²

2017

Migration in the Western Mediterranean

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The upheavals of the Arab Spring grabbed the world's immediate attention, and concern quickly grew over their potential aftermath, with the fear that a 'tidal wave' of immigrants and refugees would 'flood' European territory. The Arab Spring has highlighted the Mediterranean as a migration region, and new research is now required to bring to light too often neglected mobility patterns and border practices that predate and outlast the tumultuous spring of 2011. The edited volume Migration in the Western Mediterranean tackles these contemporary issues related to migration in the Mediterranean region. It brings together high-quality, original academic contributions from both empirical and theoretical points of view by scholars from diverse disciplines, who draw upon Anglophone, Francophone, Spanish and Italian research. It reexamines borders in the light of a now full-blown body of literature that seeks to capture the complexity of their contemporary features beyond their most direct visual enactments, in particular the sweeping deployment of policing devices and operations along the North/South fault line. Another distinctive binding thread in this book is that it emphasises migrants as active subjects interacting with local events, national policies and the bordering process. Offering an examination of the intricate interplay among the events of the Arab Spring, migration's multiple types and actors, and the evolving relationship between migration control and borders in the region, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of migration studies, European Union Studies and Mediterranean Studies. Laure-Anne Bernes holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Liège. She is currently an external scientific collaborator at the Center

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

“…The research took part in the aftermath of a crucial historical moment for Tunisia and, by viral effect, for the entire Arab world (Castells 2012;Khosrokhavar 2012;Lynch 2012). In this context, talking about the revolution was unavoidable.…”

Section: Talking About Revolutionmentioning

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Tunisian migrants’ journey through the Mediterranean

Esu¹,

Maddanu²

2017

Migration in the Western Mediterranean

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“…President Assad was blamed for creating colonialism like situations and bombing his own countrymen (Hashemi, 2013). The Arab Spring in Libya and Syria we reported worse than other countries due to killings of protesting citizens (Khosrokhavar, 2016).…”

Section: The Arab Spring: a Contagious Break Outmentioning

confidence: 76%

Discursive Strategies and Media Representation of Conflicts

Afzal¹

2019

IJEL

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The media's tendency to widely represent conflicts, through legitimization or de-legitimization, makes us believe that media narratives may not be perceived as 'neutral stances' for the public consumption. This study investigates the policy of a mainstream newspaper, The News International (NI), in Pakistan and discursive strategies manipulated by its editorial writers to portray the Arab Spring. It, specifically, examines how the selected newspaper editorials thematically constructed the uprising; (re) formulated the public opinion by echoing the Arab Spring-centred perspectives; and mostly backed the revolting protesters against the dictatorial rules in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and Syria. The data consist of purposefully selected editorials, which were published between January 2011 and December 2012. This particular timeframe has been distinguished for peak media coverage of the events. The qualitative data (editorial content) are analysed by using NVivo. Through discourse analysis approach, it is revealed that editorial writers employed several recurrent themes (e.g., protests, democracy, horror) to project a positive image of the protesters' movement and fully utilised their prerogative in constructing a 'pro-Arab Spring' discourse. This study concludes that such 'opinion discourses' serve as an eye-opener to the role of media in representing conflicts from different angles while staying in different societies. It also provides insights into the ways newspapers (dis) empower readers by promoting certain factions of a conflict and devaluing others.

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“…In the past few years, the demand for direct democracy has developed alongside alter-globalization protests. More recently, it has been used by many of the 3 rd wave movements including the Arab Spring, the Greek and Spanish Indignants, OWS, and even later movements such as the Gezi Park in Turkey (Khosrokhavar, 2012;Graeber, 2013;Farro & Demirhisar, 2014). Direct democracy advocates the self-management of collectives.…”

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Modern Anarchism in Social Movements

Baverel

2017

Émulations

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Le mouvement Occupy Wall Street, depuis ses débuts en 2011, a été relié à la théorie et à la pratique anarchiste par différents universitaires tels que David Graeber, Nathan Schneider et Mark Bray. Cependant, Occupy n’est pas un cas isolé dans l’histoire des mouvements sociaux. Le mouvement s’est développé à un moment où les manifestations des courants anti-néolibéral et pro-démocratie — à la fois locales et mondiales —, qui étaient apparues à la fin du XXe siècle, ont atteint un point culminant. En quelques années, des manifestations, des révoltes et des protestations sociales se sont répandues à travers le monde, au Nord comme au Sud. Cela va des printemps arabes en 2011 au mouvement de Gezi Park en 2013, en passant par les protestations en Grèce, le mouvement des Indignés et Occupy Wall Street. Cet article s’intéresse à la présence d’idées et de pratiques anarchistes au sein de ces mouvements, apparus au début des années 2010. Il s’appuie sur des études qui portent sur les aspects politico-économiques de ces mouvements. On pose comme hypothèse que si l’anarchisme est lié aux mouvements des années 2010 c’est au travers de ses valeurs et de ses pratiques politiques et économiques. En effet, la période qui précède les mouvements des années 2010 – –qui s’étale du milieu des années 1990 jusqu’en 2010 – a vu le développement des mouvements anti-néolibéral, altermondialiste et pro-démocratie. Ainsi, le point de contestation central qui caractérise ces mouvements – que l’on qualifiera de mouvements de la 3e vague – est donc bien politico-économique. Les études empiriques utilisées comme base de travail pour cet article ne montrent pas toutes de façon explicite le lien qui existe entre ces mouvements et l’anarchisme, mais elles révèlent cependant l’usage de pratiques politiques et économiques alternatives qui peuvent être considérées comme anarchisantes – proches des idées anarchistes sans le mentionner clairement. La présence d’idées et de pratiques anarchistes au sein des mouvements des années 2010 montre ainsi un lien avec la réémergence de l’anarchisme, sous la forme du post-anarchisme, depuis le milieu des années 1990 et dont le développement est étroitement lié au mouvement altermondialiste. Sous cette nouvelle forme, l’anarchisme a tendance à s’éloigner de son passé violent du XIXe siècle. Ainsi, même si l’anarchisme n’est pas mentionné comme tel dans la presse grand public, il existe au travers de nouveaux mouvements tels que l’alter-mondialisme et les expériences de démocratie directe.

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New Arab Revolutions That Shook the World

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Tunisian migrants’ journey through the Mediterranean

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