ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the actors operating and the processes unfolding in the Tunisian associational sphere against the backdrop of post-revolutionary political developments. The following pages describe the post-revolutionary setting as a highly competitive arena characterized by strategic dynamics of inclusion and exclusion of different players. In the first section, I highlight the political process underpinning the post-authoritarian context from 2011 until the 2019 elections by underlining the competition between new emerging actors and the remnants of the old regime. In the second section, I show how post-2011 civil society’s dynamics reflect the cleavages characterizing the political sphere. In the third section, I focus closely on religious groups, emphasizing the heterogeneity of the Islamic associational space and its relationship with the Ennahda party.
