Re-Configurations : : Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa.

• Superior document: Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens Series
• Author: Ouaissa, Rachid.
• TeilnehmendeR: Pannewick, Friederike.; Strohmaier, Alena.
• Place / Publishing House: Wiesbaden : : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)

Table of Contents

• Re-Configurations
• Acknowledgement
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Introduction
• Re-Configurations as Dynamic Processes of Change
• References
• Political Re-Configurings and Transregional Ties
• Spatializing Memory and Justice in Transformation Processes
• Memory and Justice from National to Global and Back to Local
• Spatializing the Entanglement of Local and Global2
• Conclusions
• References
• Tunisia's Re-Configurations and Transitional Justice in Process: How Planned Processes of Social and Political Change Interplay with Unplanned Political Dynamics
• Introduction
• Background: What Past is Tunisia's Transitional Justice Process Confronting?
• Introducing the "Process Gap" in Transitional Justice and a Framework for Analysis
• Tunisia's Transitional Justice in Process: Empirical Illustration
• Initiating Transitional Justice
• Designing Transitional Justice
• Performing Transitional Justice
• Conclusion and Outlook
• References
• Algeria: Between Transformation and Re-Configuration
• The Nature of the State in Algeria
• Hirak: A New Kind of Protest Movement
• References
• The International and the Construction of Opposition in Iran
• Opposition in Autocracies
• The International and the Construction of Political Opposition
• The International as a "Generalized Standpoint" and Provider of Norms
• The International as a Space of Belonging
• The International as a Comparative Horizon
• Summary
• References
• Tangier's Current Re-Configurations from a Multi-Scale Spatial Perspective: Emerging Transregional Ties and Local Repercussions
• Introduction: Local and (Trans-)Regional Re-Configurations
• Contemporary Mega-Projects Re-Configuring Tangier
• Intervening Actors and Institutions
• Integrating Policies, Programs, and Infrastructure Networks
• Emerging Connections, Entanglements, and Flows.
• Strengthened Competition and Strategic Positioning
• Increasing Fragmentation, Territorialization, and Other Problems
• Conclusion: Re-Configurations of an Emerging "Secondary City" with Transregional Links, Embedded in Multiple Scales
• References
• 1968 and the "Long 1960s": A Transregional Perspective
• Historicizing the 1960s
• Deciphering the "Long 1960s" and 1968
• Trans-MENA in Southeast Asia-The "other 1960s"?
• Re-Configurations
• References
• Social Re-Configurings and Generational Challenges
• The Survival of the Kurdish Chicken: Uneven Development and Nationalist Discourse in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
• Research Question and Positionality
• The Chicken on the Roof
• Nationalism, Uneven Development, and Neoliberalism
• Change, Continuity, and the Chicken
• The (A-)Political at the End
• References
• The Infantilization of the Colonized: Medical and Psychiatric Descriptions of Drinking Habits in the Colonial Maghreb
• Levels of Infantilization
• Drinking Incorrectly
• Immature Bodies
• Lessons on Drinking
• Conclusion
• References
• National Memory in the Making: Gendered Re-Configurations of Martyrdom in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
• Arab Masculinities in Question
• Fieldwork: Investigating a Polarized Context
• The Early Days of the Revolution: The Impulsive Designation of "Martyrs"
• A Strategic Cause on the Post-Revolutionary Stage
• Suspicious Masculinities: In Search of the "Fake" Martyrs of the Revolution
• Subaltern Voices and Alternative Narratives
• "Martyrs of the Nation": The Consecration of Militarized Masculinities
• Conclusion
• References
• Teachers' Resistance to Educational Change and Innovations in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Tunisian Universities
• Materials and Methods
• Populations
• Results and Discussion
• Extrinsic Barriers
• Intrinsic Barriers.
• Implementation Strategy
• Conclusion
• References
• The Role of Social Movements in the Re-Configuration of Youth Transition Regimes: The Biography of an Unemployed Graduates Activist in Morocco
• Introduction
• Life-Courses in Youth Transition Regimes
• Morocco: The Unemployed Graduates Movement and Its Historical Context
• A Precarious Cycle of Lifelong Learning
• Protest as Part of the Transition
• The "Arab Spring" as a Rupture: Ushering in the End of the Movement?
• Conclusion
• References
• Family Memories and the Transmission of the Independence Struggle in South Yemen
• Introduction
• The Role of Family Memories in Contexts of Defeats
• The Transmission of Independence in Families
• Conclusion
• References
• Aesthetic Re-Configurings and the Politics of Change
• On the Re-Configurations of Cinematic Media-Spaces: From Diaspora Film to Postdiaspora Film
• Introduction1: "Diaspora is Highly Contemporary"
• From Exile to Diaspora
• Beyond Hybridity
• Conclusion: "Postdiaspora is an Emancipatory Move"
• References
• The Metamorphosis of the Significance of Death in Revolutionary Times: Mohammad Rabie's Otared (2014)
• Introduction
• Violent Death: Between the Derealization of the Living and the Martyrization of the Dead
• Death and Fear in Post-2011 Dystopias: The Example of Mohammad Rabie's Otared
• 2011: Hope as the Grim Reaper
• "2025": "Marters of the Reverlooshun!"
• Conclusion
• References
• Processing the Revolution: Exploring the Ways Tunisian Novels Reflect Political Upheavals
• Introduction
• Why Analyze Literature?
• Literary Prizes and Their Influence: The Prix Littéraires Comar d'Or
• Individual Impressions of Socio-Political Change
• Family Drama Beats Revolutionary References
• Political Upheavals and the Personal Sphere
• Conclusion
• References.
• Transformations of the "Syrian" Literary Field Since 2011
• The Field
• Trends of Internationalization
• Translations
• Challenges to the Hierarchies of the Field
• Arab Media
• Conclusion
• References
• The Year 1979 as a Turning Point in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to Critical Humanism
• Politicization and Commitment in the Wake of 1967
• Between Commitment and Despair
• From Didactic Theatre to Psychological Studies
• References.