Yemen’s enduring resistance: youth between politics and informal mobilization

Alwazir, Atiaf

doi:10.1080/13629395.2015.1081446

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“…This contribution also shows that the resources of credibility and revolutionary legitimacy by themselves did not guarantee political influence in Tunisia. Rather, as in other countries of the region, mobilization and demands for economic and transitional justice were sidelined throughout the transformation period (see, e.g., Alwazir, 2016). Their marginalization can be explained by the strategies these mobilized publics used or by their lack of resources, such as access to the PRE and the media.…”

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Contested transformation: mobilized publics in Tunisia between compliance and protest

Antonakis-Nashif

2015

Mediterranean Politics

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and stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (sWP), German institute for international and security affairs With the ousting of Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, new political actors and various forms of participation began to emerge in a society previously restricted by a complex security and censorship system. At the same time, existing civil society organizations and activist networks that had operated in secret or subject to severe restrictions were able to expand their activities. Reform of the association law in September 2011 under the interim government of prime minister Beji Caid Essebsi liberalized civil society and led to a vibrant landscape of initiatives, unions, associations and various types of other organizations.Researchers and donor organizations have tended to describe civil society as a uniformly supportive actor in the Tunisian transformation process (Deane, 2013). In particular, the strong Tunisian General Labour Union (Union générale tunisienne du travail, UGTT) has been extolled for its mediating and stabilizing role (Chayes, 2014). Such narratives are generated by research agendas focusing ABSTRACT A variety of civil society actors played a major role in the 2011 uprisings in Tunisia that ousted President Ben Ali, but its influence waned in the course of the following transformation process. This article looks at different forms of expressions of contentious politics and non-institutionalized movements, framed here as 'mobilized publics' , that have intervened in the political process in Tunisia. It proposes that there are significant differences in their respective views on the transformation and the role that they can play in it, and hence the approaches to activism that they chose. Three case studies of mobilized publicsin the field of gender justice, socio-economic justice and transitional justice-are examined according to their different degrees of institutionalization, resources and strategies. The analysis shows how struggles for socio-economic justice and transitional justice have been marginalized and discredited as disruptive by a political elite that wagered on increasing polarization.

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Contested transformation: mobilized publics in Tunisia between compliance and protest

Antonakis-Nashif

2015

Mediterranean Politics

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“…In the weeks prior to the conference, they often referred to it as a historic chance to end the country's crisis and build a new state, raising expectations and effectively staking Hadi's legitimacy as transitional president on a successful conclusion of the dialogue. The institutional structure of the NDC and the choice of delegates from the mobilized publics, in particular the so-called independent youth, both served Hadi and his supporters as resources for steering the conference according to their objectives (Alwazir, 2013;Alwazir, 2016).…”

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