Arab Spring : : Uprisings, Powers, Interventions / / Kjetil Fosshagen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Fosshagen, Kjetil,
• MitwirkendeR: Abenante, Paola,; Fibiger, Thomas,; Fosshagen, Kjetil,; Humphrey, Michael,; Samour, Sobhi,; Spellman-Poots, Kathryn,; Webb, Martin,; Werbner, Pnina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (122 p.)

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, and relationships. This volume delves beneath the seemingly chaotic nature of events to explore the structural dynamics underpinning popular resistance and their support or suppression. It moves beyond what has usually been defined as Arab Spring nations to include critical views on Bahrain, the Palestinian territories, and Turkey. The research and analysis presented explores not just the immediate protests, but also the historical realization, appropriation, and even institutionalization of these critical voices, as well as the role of international criminal law and legal exceptionalism in authorizing humanitarian interventions. Above all, it questions whether the revolutions have since been hijacked and the broad popular uprisings already overrun, suppressed, or usurped by the upper classes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Arab Spring—Revolution or 1848 Reaction? -- Tahrir as Heterotopia: Spaces and Aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution -- Beyond the Arab Spring: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Popular Revolt and Protest, 2010–2012 -- Emergency Law and Hypergovernance: Human Rights and Regime Change in the Arab Spring -- The Promises and Limitations of Economic Protests in the West Bank -- Stability or Democracy? The Failed Uprising in Bahrain and the Battle for the International Agenda -- The Turkish Model for the Arab Spring: The Corporate Moralist State -- Contributors