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## Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations ## Explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the protest movements that followed From Egypt to India, and from Botswana to London, worker, youth and middle class rebellions have taken on the political and bureaucratic status quo and the privilege of small, wealthy and often corrupt elites at a time when the majority can no longer earn a decent wage. A remarkable feature of the protests from the Arab Spring onwards has been the salience of images, songs, videos, humour, satire and dramatic performances. This book explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the mass mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes, the apolitical silent majority, as well as enabling solidarities and alliances among democrats, workers, trade unions, civil rights activists and opposition parties. Comparing the North African and Middle Eastern uprisings with protest movements such as Occupy, the authors bring to bear an anthropological and sociological approach from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the debate by drawing on a wide array of disciplinary expertise. #

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Author

Pnina Werbner; Martin Webb, (Anthropologist); Kathryn Spellman-Poots

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press in association with the Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748693351

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Sociology