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The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising
- Title
- The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated by G.M. Goshgarian.
- Author
- Achcar, Gilbert
- Publication
- London : Saqi Books, 2022.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Goshgarian, G. M.
- Description
- xxv, 415 pages : illustrations (black & white); 21 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Previous edition of this translation: 2013.
- Translated from the French.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Fettered Development -- The Facts 14 Poverty, Inequality, Precarity -- Informal Sector and Unemployment: The Bouazizi Syndrome -- Youth Underemployment -- Female Underemployment -- Graduate Unemployment -- Fetters on Development -- 2. The Peculiar Modalities Of Capitalism In The Arab Region -- The Problem of Investment -- Public and Private Investment -- A Specific Variant of the Capitalist Mode of Production -- 1. Rentier and Patrimonial States -- 2. A Politically Determined Capitalism: Nepotism and Risk -- The Genesis of the Specific Regional Variant of Capitalism: An Overview -- 3. Regional Political Factors -- The Oil Curse -- From "Arab Despotic Exception" to "Democracy Promotion" -- The Muslim Brothers, Washington and the Saudis -- The Muslim Brothers, Washington and Qatar -- Al Jazeera and the Upheaval in the Arab Mediascape -- 4. Actors And Parameters Of The Revolution -- Overdetermination and Subjective Conditions -- The Workers' Movement and Social Struggles -- New Actors and New Information and Communication Technologies -- States and Revolutions -- 5. A Provisional Balance Sheet Of The Arab Uprising -- Coups d'Etat and Revolutions -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 1: Tunisia -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 2: Egypt -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 3: Yemen -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 4: Bahrain -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 5: Libya -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 6: Syria -- 6. CO-Opting The Uprising -- Washington and the Muslim Brothers, Take Two -- NATO, Libya, and Syria -- The "Islamic Tsunami" and the Difference between Khomeini and Morsi -- conclusion: the future of the arab uprising -- The Difference between Erdogan and Ghannouchi -- ... And the Difference between Erdogan and Morsi -- Conditions for a Genuine Solution.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-353
- ISBN
- 9780863564772
- 0863564771
- OCLC
- 1308485227
- Author
- Achcar, Gilbert, author.
- Title
- The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated by G.M. Goshgarian.
- Publisher
- London : Saqi Books, 2022.
- Edition
- New edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 2000
- Added Author
- Goshgarian, G. M., translator.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Achcar, Gilbert. People want. New edition. London : Saqi, 2022 9780863568329 (OCoLC)1314335895
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-353