TY  - GEN
T1  - Tunisian Revolutions : reflections on seas, coasts, and interiors
A1  - Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann
LA  - English
PP  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Georgetown University Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn897377310
AB  - "In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian merchant, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation viewed economic and political despair as the root of the Tunisian revolution, but as Julia Clancy-Smith points out, Tunisia's long history of revolutions and protest movements presents a far more complicated set of causes. Proposing a conceptual framework of "coastalization" v. "interiorization," Clancy-Smith examines Tunisia's last two centuries and demonstrates how geographical and environmental and social factors also lie behind that country's volatile history. Within this framework Clancy-Smith explores how Tunisia's coast became a Mediterranean playground for transnational elites, a mecca of tourism, while its interior agrarian regions suffered increasing neglect and marginalization. This distinction has had a profound impact on the fate of Tunisia, and has manifested itself in divisive debates over politics and religion and gender that have lead to a series of mass civic actions that continue to this day. Clancy-Smith proposes a fresh historical lens through which to view the relationship between spacial displacements, regionalization, and transnationalism."--Provided by publisher
OP  - 46
CN  - DT257 .C553 2014e
SN  - 9781626162136
SN  - 1626162131
KW  - Tunisia : History : 19th century.
KW  - Tunisia : Politics and government : 19th century.
KW  - Tunisia : History : 20th century.
KW  - Tunisia : Politics and government : 20th century.
KW  - Tunisia : History : 21st century.
KW  - Tunisia : Politics and government : 21st century.
KW  - Tunisians.
KW  - Tunisia : Politics and government.
KW  - National characteristics, Tunisian.
KW  - Tunisie : Politique et gouvernement : 19e siècle.
KW  - Tunisie : Politique et gouvernement : 20e siècle.
KW  - Tunisie : Politique et gouvernement : 21e siècle.
KW  - Tunisiens.
KW  - Tunisie : Politique et gouvernement.
KW  - HISTORY : Africa : North.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : General.
KW  - National characteristics, Tunisian
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Tunisians
KW  - Tunisia
KW  - 1800-2099
KW  - History
ER  -