A Decade of Demonstrations and Protest Movements in the Arab World
Recourse to protest as a tool for expression and civic engagement has intensified worldwide over the last decade, exposing the crisis of representation systems and the transformations taking place in the relations between governments and their citizens. In the middle east and north Africa (Mena), co...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repositorio: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/42240 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.iemed.org/observatori/arees-danalisi/arxius-adjunts/anuari/med.2020/Demonstrations_Protest_Movements_Arab_Hernando_de_Larramendi_IEMed_YearBook2020.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10578/42240 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Arab World Movimientos de protesta |
| Sumario: | Recourse to protest as a tool for expression and civic engagement has intensified worldwide over the last decade, exposing the crisis of representation systems and the transformations taking place in the relations between governments and their citizens. In the middle east and north Africa (Mena), considered the world’s most unequal region (Assouad, 2020), the number of protests between 2009 and 2019 in-creased 16.5% (Brannen, Haig & Schmidt, 2020). The region is no exception to a global trend that grew more pronounced in 2019 with protests erupting around the world (the gilets jaunes or “yellow vests” in France, Hong Kong, Chile, Iran, South Africa, etc.). This wave of protests is driven by widening inequality, the rejection of corruption, a growing awareness of regional differences in wealth within countries, and the questioning of political regimes that are unable to meet their citizens’ welfare and social justice expectations. The chapter focuses on the protests in Sudan, Algeria, Iraq and Lebanon throughout 2019 |
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