ABSTRACT
The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring,’ a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval.
The meme of the Arab Spring is characterised by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring seeks to provide a departure point for ongoing discussion of a fluid phenomenon on a plethora of topics, including:
- Contexts and contests of democratisation
- The sweep of the Arab Spring
- Egypt
- Women and the Arab Spring
- Agents of change and the technology of protest
- Impact of the Arab Spring in the wider Middle East and further afield
Collating a wide array of viewpoints, specialisms, biases, and degrees of proximity and distance from events that shook the Arab world to its core, the Handbook is written with the reader in mind, to provide students, practitioners, diplomats, policy-makers and lay readers with contextualization and knowledge, and to set the stage for further discussion of the Arab Spring.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
Introducing the Arab Spring
chapter 4|12 pages
Towards a Historical Sociology of the Arab Uprising
part II|134 pages
The 'Travel' of Revolution
chapter 10|15 pages
Libya's Islamists and the 17 February Revolution
chapter 12|15 pages
The Arab Spring Comes to Syria
part III|74 pages
Egypt in the Arab Spring
chapter 19|13 pages
Contemporary Islamist Discourses on the State in Egypt
chapter 20|18 pages
Failure of a Revolution
part IV|30 pages
Women's Voices in the Arab Spring
part V|40 pages
Arab Spring
chapter 23|16 pages
Breakdown of the Authoritarian 'Social Contract' and Emergence of New Social Actors
part VI|92 pages
Uprisings
part VII|114 pages
The Arab Spring
part b VIII|103 pages
The Arab Spring in a Global Context