Understanding Libya's ‘Revolution’ through Transformation of the<i>Jamahiriyya</i>into a State of Exception

Capasso, Matteo

doi:10.1080/19436149.2013.783533

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“…For the samples, the right answers are by 38.2 % in relation to some questions about the constitution. It is attributed to the fact that the constitution was suspended from 1969 to 2012 (Capasso, 2013). The right answers were also about the totalitarian rule during this period of time that followed a certain ideological context.…”

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The Political Knowledge of University Students (A Comparative Study between Jordan and Libya)

Alsati¹,

Ghanem²

2017

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The current research aims at identifying and measuring the political knowledge of the students of the two universities of Al-Balqaa in Jordan and Omar Al-Mokhtar in Libya. The two communities are almost similar in terms of the social formation, Arab customs and traditions, the Bedouin values, the difference in the institutional age and the political stability.The study attempts to measure and compare the political knowledge in the communities of the two universities using the descriptive and comparative analytical method. The study uses a 400 random questionnaire of 30 paragraphs to measure eight indicators divided into internal and external political knowledge, and other aspects of knowledge: general political knowledge, knowledge of the political institutions and leaders, the political interest, the geographical and historical knowledge, and knowledge of the methods of exercising the political process. The study also attempts to identifying the most important sources and the role of the university in university students' political knowledge. The results show that the level of the political knowledge is medium while its level in the sample of the Jordanian students is high. According to the samples, the internal political knowledge is more than the external knowledge with a lack of interest in the political matters. The samples do not consider the political matters as their priorities. The political knowledge as a whole needs to much effort to be exerted to confront the current circumstances. The variables of the place of resident, age and the educational level make big difference in the political knowledge. In contrast, the level of the parental education does not create big differences.

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The Political Knowledge of University Students (A Comparative Study between Jordan and Libya)

Alsati¹,

Ghanem²

2017

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“…Since oil was the main source of revenue for the country, the government assumed a purely distributive role, providing imported goods and public-sector jobs to the population. The revolution had not only failed to transform the working classes into a productive force for the economy: it had also undermined the effectiveness of the democratic structure of representation, through an increasingly centralised power structure, under the firm rule of Qaddafi and his close affiliates, particularly the Revolutionary Committees, which sought to inherit the prerogatives and privileges of the old bourgeois order (Capasso 2013).…”

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The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya

Capasso

2020

Review of African Political Economy

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This article questions dominant analyses about Libya’s present ‘war economy’ and ‘statelessness’, which are often deployed to explain the country’s ongoing destruction. By reinterpreting the history of the past as the failure of Libya to implement neoliberal reforms, these accounts trivialise its anti-imperialist history. The article reflects on the role that war and militarism play in the US-led imperialist structure, tracing the gradual unmaking of Libya from the progressive revolutionary era, towards its transformation into a comprador state and an outpost for global class war. In doing so, it moves the focus away from Libya’s ‘war economy’ to examine the war and the economy, linking Libya’s fate to the geo-economic and geopolitical forces at the core of US-led imperialism.

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The Libyan Drawers: ‘Stateless Society,’ ‘Humanitarian Intervention,’ ‘Logic of Exception’ and ‘Traversing the Phantasy’

Capasso¹

2014

Middle East Critique

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In this article I examine the Libyan case through diverse theoretical lenses. For this purpose, I inquire into the ways Libya under Qadhdhafi previously has been investigated in order to deconstruct the Orientalist vision of a 'stateless society' and to reveal the ideological interests that the stigmatization of Qadhdhafi as a 'mad dog' served. By looking at the current situation, the article inevitably interrogates the role of 'humanitarian intervention' and its ideological kernel that seems to parallel the incapacity of academic scholarship to move beyond the notion of 'statelessness.' Then, it investigates whether a continuation of the logic of exception that seemed to characterize the Jamahiriyya under Qadhdhafi is still present and, finally, it proposes the possible embracement of a new radical position through the Lacanian process of 'subjective destitution' or 'traversing the phantasy,' as elaborated by Slavoj Ž ižek.

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Understanding Libya's ‘Revolution’ through Transformation of theJamahiriyyainto a State of Exception

Cited by 7 publications

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The Political Knowledge of University Students (A Comparative Study between Jordan and Libya)

The Political Knowledge of University Students (A Comparative Study between Jordan and Libya)

The war and the economy: the gradual destruction of Libya

The Libyan Drawers: ‘Stateless Society,’ ‘Humanitarian Intervention,’ ‘Logic of Exception’ and ‘Traversing the Phantasy’

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