E C Murphy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 286267 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E C Murphy |
| NOMBRES | E C |
| APELLIDO | Murphy |
| FIRMA | MURPHY E C |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5292-7014 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Young women's travel safety and the journey to work
The relationship between women's everyday lived travel experiences as daily commuters and their employment history and potential has not been adequately researched and documented in African contexts. This multidisciplinary study, utilising an innovative action research methodology, compares experiences of young women (18-35y) resident in low-income neighbourhoods of three diverse African cities - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. It examines the challe…
Engaging citizens from low-income communities in transport planning
This paper draws on experience from a series of transport-focused studies built round peer research with community members resident in low-income neighbourhoods at the periphery of three major cities: Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. These were conducted firstly with young women aged 18–35 in all three cities over a four-year period (2019–2022, i.e. spanning the pandemic), followed by a recently completed pilot with young men in the same age group (bu…
Driven out
Employment in the transport sector has historically proven to be maledominated, even in countries like Tunisia which have evidenced public policy narratives and legal employment frameworks promoting gender equality. This paper presented the findings from a grounded research study examining women's employment experiences in blue-collar roles in the transport sector of Greater Tunis. Drawing on extensive interviews with both female and male transpo…
The Covid-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective
Young people have faced some of the hardest social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. Taking a critical Youth Studies perspective, we draw on research with nearly 1000 16-to-30-year olds in North East England in order to rectify the ‘structured absence’ of young people’s viewpoints in national media and political commentary about the pandemic. Our findings contradict narratives about young people as lockdown ‘…
The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector
This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male identity and motor-mobility in Africa is ubiquitous and has rarely been questioned by transport sector actors. Women are still largely absent from the story, constrained at least partly by hegemonic norm…
No place for a woman’
Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situates those experiences, and the practices they deploy to navigate them, within a meso-level discussion of women’s social condition in Tunisia and a macro-level political economy of the Tunis transport s…
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care
This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended family members, others have children in their care, but concerns around avoiding contagion have forced all peer researchers to reflect on their everyday socio-spatial mobility practices. This includes whe…
Euro-Mediterranean partnership and youth policies in the Mena
This article explores the transfer of European approaches to youth policy to MENA regimes through their Mediterranean partnership programmes. Drawing on the papers and research conducted for the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) research project, this conclusion investigates how European institutional and MENA governmental interests in similar models of youth policy-making converged but also why this convergence remained largely a feature of the discursive domai…
A Political Economy of Youth Policy in Tunisia
This paper seeks to add to debates over the contribution that a political economy approach can make to understanding the current condition of youth, specifically narrowing the focus to youth policy. The paper suggests an approach which locates youth not as a class in itself, but as being at the epicentre of the growing labour precariat. Youth policy, formulated and disseminated through the structures and hierarchies of global neo-liberal capital …
The Foreign Policies of Middle East States
This new edition of The Foreign Policies of Middle East States reflects the momentous events and shifting dynamics that have occurred in the region in the nearly fifteen years since the first edition was published. Working within a common analytical framework, the authors offer a theoretically grounded, systematic examination of the foreign policies of eleven states
The Maghreb on the Eve of the Arab Uprising
Workers' Movement Out of Declining Occupations in Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland
The employment structure undergoes constant change. Certain occupations grow while others decline under the pressure of technological advances, internationalization and welfare state reforms. This evolution at the aggregate level has been well documented. Our knowledge of how macro-level change in the employment structure is brought about through micro-level career adjustments is less extensive. Drawing on panel data, this paper examines the type…
The Tunisian elections of October 2011
In October 2011, Tunisia held its first free and fair elections since independence was gained in 1956. In January the authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali had fled the country, following a month of sustained and widespread popular protest. This article charts the political process from that moment through to the conclusion of the electoral processes, demonstrating the key roles played by an historical legacy of socially embedded instituti…
Problematizing Arab Youth
Arab youth have proved to be an engine for long-awaited political change in the region, but who are they and how should we understand them as a phenomenon rather than simply a social category? This paper suggests that the various paradigms which exist for identifying and explaining Arab youth are individually in themselves insufficient. By combining their contributions, however, Arab youth becomes visible as a lived and shared generational narrat…
Tunisia
Christopher Alexander, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, Pb ISBN 978-0-415-48330-8, £24.99;, Hb ISBN 978-0-415-27421-0, £80.00 One can only imagine that Christopher Alexander winces a little ev
Introduction
The Tunisian Uprising and the Precarious Path to Democracy
The popular uprising in Tunisia, which took place at the start of the year and which one can cautiously hope will lead to the first genuine democratic state in North Africa, took everyone by surpri
The Arab State and (Absent) Civility in New Communicative Spaces
This study examines how Arab states have constructed national regulatory regimes for satellite television and telecommunications which undermine or inhibit the emergence of the three normative requisites for a civil political culture: freedom, equality and tolerance. Drawing on case studies of Jordan, Egypt and the UAE, the study argues that, by failing to be either self-limiting or to protect civil society from its uncivil components in the new …
Theorizing ICTs in the Arab World
The concept of the public sphere has become a commonly used paradigm for understanding the impact of contemporary Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) on the political spaces of the Arab world. This article aims to explore the multiple understandings of this evolving public sphere and their shortcomings. A survey of recent research on the Arab region demonstrates inconsistencies which have arisen from an abstraction of the concept f…
Institutions, Islam and Democracy Promotion
Agency and Space
Recent political reforms in the Gulf Arab countries have been variously understood as regime survival strategies, correlates of economic globalisation, and even the end result of US pressure to democratise. This paper examines the possible role played by the introduction of modern information and communication technologies (icts) in stimulating political liberalisation in the Gulf Arab states. Rather than attempting to quantify their democratisin…
The Tunisian Mise à Niveau Programme and the Political Economy of Reform
Women in Tunisia
Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East
This original work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region. Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures. For some women, for example, globalization has meant increased access to education and employment; for others, it has resulted in heightened repression under ideol…
The Foreign Policies of Middle East States
Problematizing Arab Youth
Arab youth have proved to be an engine for long-awaited political change in the region, but who are they and how should we understand them as a phenomenon rather than simply a social category? This paper suggests that the various paradigms which exist for identifying and explaining Arab youth are individually in themselves insufficient. By combining their contributions, however, Arab youth becomes visible as a lived and shared generational narrat…
The Covid-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective
Young people have faced some of the hardest social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. Taking a critical Youth Studies perspective, we draw on research with nearly 1000 16-to-30-year olds in North East England in order to rectify the ‘structured absence’ of young people’s viewpoints in national media and political commentary about the pandemic. Our findings contradict narratives about young people as lockdown ‘…
The Tunisian elections of October 2011
In October 2011, Tunisia held its first free and fair elections since independence was gained in 1956. In January the authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali had fled the country, following a month of sustained and widespread popular protest. This article charts the political process from that moment through to the conclusion of the electoral processes, demonstrating the key roles played by an historical legacy of socially embedded instituti…
Theorizing ICTs in the Arab World
The concept of the public sphere has become a commonly used paradigm for understanding the impact of contemporary Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) on the political spaces of the Arab world. This article aims to explore the multiple understandings of this evolving public sphere and their shortcomings. A survey of recent research on the Arab region demonstrates inconsistencies which have arisen from an abstraction of the concept f…
Workers' Movement Out of Declining Occupations in Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland
The employment structure undergoes constant change. Certain occupations grow while others decline under the pressure of technological advances, internationalization and welfare state reforms. This evolution at the aggregate level has been well documented. Our knowledge of how macro-level change in the employment structure is brought about through micro-level career adjustments is less extensive. Drawing on panel data, this paper examines the type…
The Tunisian Mise à Niveau Programme and the Political Economy of Reform
Transformation of the corporatist state in the Middle East
root. The article seeks to demonstrate that this may be a function of the disarticulation of corporatist models for political organisation adopted in bureaucratic-bourgeois states. As the state seeks to build a wider political base in support of its economic policies, it is itself responsible for the breakdown of the corporatist structures which have provided political stability. The political protest and challenges to the regime which result can…
No place for a woman’
Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situates those experiences, and the practices they deploy to navigate them, within a meso-level discussion of women’s social condition in Tunisia and a macro-level political economy of the Tunis transport s…
A Political Economy of Youth Policy in Tunisia
This paper seeks to add to debates over the contribution that a political economy approach can make to understanding the current condition of youth, specifically narrowing the focus to youth policy. The paper suggests an approach which locates youth not as a class in itself, but as being at the epicentre of the growing labour precariat. Youth policy, formulated and disseminated through the structures and hierarchies of global neo-liberal capital …
The Tunisian Uprising and the Precarious Path to Democracy
The popular uprising in Tunisia, which took place at the start of the year and which one can cautiously hope will lead to the first genuine democratic state in North Africa, took everyone by surpri
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care
This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended family members, others have children in their care, but concerns around avoiding contagion have forced all peer researchers to reflect on their everyday socio-spatial mobility practices. This includes whe…
Young women's travel safety and the journey to work
The relationship between women's everyday lived travel experiences as daily commuters and their employment history and potential has not been adequately researched and documented in African contexts. This multidisciplinary study, utilising an innovative action research methodology, compares experiences of young women (18-35y) resident in low-income neighbourhoods of three diverse African cities - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. It examines the challe…
Agency and Space
Recent political reforms in the Gulf Arab countries have been variously understood as regime survival strategies, correlates of economic globalisation, and even the end result of US pressure to democratise. This paper examines the possible role played by the introduction of modern information and communication technologies (icts) in stimulating political liberalisation in the Gulf Arab states. Rather than attempting to quantify their democratisin…
The State and the Private Sector in North Africa
There is a tendency in neo-liberal economics to consider the state and the private sector as one another's antitheses, as dichotomous and mutually exclusive. Moreover, the prevailing notion is that 'public is bad, private is good', meaning that the retreat of the one and the expansion of the other work together to provide the necessary conditions for economic growth. This article argues that this approach is not only obviously overly simplistic, …
Legitimacy and economic reform in the Arab world
In the 1970s Michael Hudson identified a crisis of regime legitimacy among the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa. By the mid‐1980s that crisis had been compounded by economic failures and stresses across the region. Regimes have subsequently sought to address the economic problems by means of reform and structural adjustment. This article seeks to assess the impact of such measures upon regime and political system legitimacy within …
Ten years on ‐ Ben Ali's Tunisia
(1997). Ten years on ‐ Ben Ali's Tunisia. Mediterranean Politics: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 114-122
Palestinians
Journal Article Palestinians: the making of a people Get access Palestinians: the making of a people. By Baruch Kimmerlingand Joel S. Migdal. New York: Free Press. 1993. 396pp. Index. $29.95. ISBN 0 02 917321 3. Emma C. Murphy Emma C. Murphy 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Page 615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622410 Published: 01 Jul…
Driven out
Employment in the transport sector has historically proven to be maledominated, even in countries like Tunisia which have evidenced public policy narratives and legal employment frameworks promoting gender equality. This paper presented the findings from a grounded research study examining women's employment experiences in blue-collar roles in the transport sector of Greater Tunis. Drawing on extensive interviews with both female and male transpo…
Euro-Mediterranean partnership and youth policies in the Mena
This article explores the transfer of European approaches to youth policy to MENA regimes through their Mediterranean partnership programmes. Drawing on the papers and research conducted for the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) research project, this conclusion investigates how European institutional and MENA governmental interests in similar models of youth policy-making converged but also why this convergence remained largely a feature of the discursive domai…
The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector
This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male identity and motor-mobility in Africa is ubiquitous and has rarely been questioned by transport sector actors. Women are still largely absent from the story, constrained at least partly by hegemonic norm…
Tunisia
Christopher Alexander, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, Pb ISBN 978-0-415-48330-8, £24.99;, Hb ISBN 978-0-415-27421-0, £80.00 One can only imagine that Christopher Alexander winces a little ev
The Arab State and (Absent) Civility in New Communicative Spaces
This study examines how Arab states have constructed national regulatory regimes for satellite television and telecommunications which undermine or inhibit the emergence of the three normative requisites for a civil political culture: freedom, equality and tolerance. Drawing on case studies of Jordan, Egypt and the UAE, the study argues that, by failing to be either self-limiting or to protect civil society from its uncivil components in the new …
Institutions, Islam and Democracy Promotion
Women in Tunisia
Female emancipation in Tunisia is largely due to two pioneering figures: Tahar Haddad, who, at the start of twentieth century, argued that, as Islam was a religion of equality and justice, men and women should be treated equally; and Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba. As premier in 1956, he guided a radical personal status code into law, justifying equality for women on the basis of ijtihad. His support for emancipation continued until h…
The Non-Arab Middle East States and the Caucasian/Central Asian Republics
B. Reviews
REGIERUNG UND VERWALTUNG DES VORDEREN ORIENTS IN ISLAMISCHER ZEIT. TEIL 2. Mit Beiträgen von D. SOURDEL und J. BOSCH VILÁ. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Band VI: Geschichte der islamischen Länder, Abschnitt 5.) Leiden, Brill, 1988. vi, 152pp. Hfl.68.‐ (58.‐ to Series subscribers). BRITAIN AND THE MIDDLE EAST: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1945–87. By FRANK BRENCHLEY. (Middle East Studies.) London, Lester Crook, 1989. 391pp. AN IMPERIAL TWILIGHT. By SIR GAWA…
B. Reviews
A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES. By ALBERT HOURANI. London, Faber and Faber, 1991. xviii, 551pp. £25 (hb). STUDIES IN ARAB HISTORY. Edited by DEREK HOPWOOD. (St.Antony's/Macmillan series.) London, Macmillan, 1990. 189pp. 5 plates and 3 figures. A HISTORY OF THE SELJUKS: İBRAHIM KAFESOGLU'S INTERPRETATION AND THE RESULTING CONTROVERSY. Translated and edited By GARY LEISER. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. 208pp.…
The last option
Journal Article The last option: after Nasser, Arafat and Saddam Hussein, the quest for peace in the Middle East Get access The last option: after Nasser, Arafat and Saddam Hussein, the quest for peace in the Middle East. By David Kimche. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1991. 328pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 297 81190 8. Emma Murphy Emma Murphy 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Internation…
No trumpets, no drums
Journal Article No trumpets, no drums: a two-state settlement of the Israeli—Palestinian conflict Get access No trumpets, no drums: a two-state settlement of the Israeli—Palestinian conflict. By Sari Nusseibehand Mark A. Heller. London: Tauris. 1991. 183pp. Index. £12.95. ISBN 1 85043 365 8. Emma Murphy Emma Murphy 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issu…
Labor and the political economy in Israel
Journal Article Labor and the political economy in Israel Get access Labor and the political economy in Israel. By Michael Shalev. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 0 19 828513 2. Emma C. Murphy Emma C. Murphy 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Page 616, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622411 Published: 01 July 1993
Palestinians
Journal Article Palestinians: the making of a people Get access Palestinians: the making of a people. By Baruch Kimmerlingand Joel S. Migdal. New York: Free Press. 1993. 396pp. Index. $29.95. ISBN 0 02 917321 3. Emma C. Murphy Emma C. Murphy 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Page 615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622410 Published: 01 Jul…
Palestine reborn
Journal Article Palestine reborn Get access Palestine reborn. By Walid Khalidi. London: Tauris. 1992. 234pp. £35.00. ISBN 1 85043 563 4. Emma C. Murphy Emma C. Murphy 1University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 396–397, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621693 Published: 01 April 1993
The Non-Arab Middle East States and the Caucasian/Central Asian Republics
The Non-Arab Middle East States and the Caucasian/Central Asian Republics
The Arab‐Israeli peace process
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PALESTINIAN PEASANTS AND OTTOMAN OFFICIALS: RURAL ADMINISTRATION AROUND SIXTEENTH‐CENTURY JERUSALEM. By Amy Singer. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. THE PASHA'S PEASANTS: LAND, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN LOWER EGYPT, 1740–1858. By Kenneth M. Cuno. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 27.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 295 pp., tables, appendices, index. £35.00 (hb). SOCIALISM AND NAT…
Transformation of the corporatist state in the Middle East
root. The article seeks to demonstrate that this may be a function of the disarticulation of corporatist models for political organisation adopted in bureaucratic-bourgeois states. As the state seeks to build a wider political base in support of its economic policies, it is itself responsible for the breakdown of the corporatist structures which have provided political stability. The political protest and challenges to the regime which result can…
Women in Tunisia
Female emancipation in Tunisia is largely due to two pioneering figures: Tahar Haddad, who, at the start of twentieth century, argued that, as Islam was a religion of equality and justice, men and women should be treated equally; and Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba. As premier in 1956, he guided a radical personal status code into law, justifying equality for women on the basis of ijtihad. His support for emancipation continued until h…
Ten years on ‐ Ben Ali's Tunisia
(1997). Ten years on ‐ Ben Ali's Tunisia. Mediterranean Politics: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 114-122
From war to peace Arab-Israeli relations 1973-1993
Legitimacy and economic reform in the Arab world
In the 1970s Michael Hudson identified a crisis of regime legitimacy among the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa. By the mid‐1980s that crisis had been compounded by economic failures and stresses across the region. Regimes have subsequently sought to address the economic problems by means of reform and structural adjustment. This article seeks to assess the impact of such measures upon regime and political system legitimacy within …
Economic and Political change in Tunisia
This book examines the processes of economic and political reform in Tunisia, placing the current policies of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali within their historical context. The book develops a theoretical u
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BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND THE MARKET: INTIMATE POLITICS AND SURVIVAL IN CAIRO. By Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1997. xviii, 302 pp
The State and the Private Sector in North Africa
There is a tendency in neo-liberal economics to consider the state and the private sector as one another's antitheses, as dichotomous and mutually exclusive. Moreover, the prevailing notion is that 'public is bad, private is good', meaning that the retreat of the one and the expansion of the other work together to provide the necessary conditions for economic growth. This article argues that this approach is not only obviously overly simplistic, …
The Foreign Policies of Middle East States
Women in Tunisia
Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East
This original work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region. Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures. For some women, for example, globalization has meant increased access to education and employment; for others, it has resulted in heightened repression under ideol…
Agency and Space
Recent political reforms in the Gulf Arab countries have been variously understood as regime survival strategies, correlates of economic globalisation, and even the end result of US pressure to democratise. This paper examines the possible role played by the introduction of modern information and communication technologies (icts) in stimulating political liberalisation in the Gulf Arab states. Rather than attempting to quantify their democratisin…
The Tunisian Mise à Niveau Programme and the Political Economy of Reform
Institutions, Islam and Democracy Promotion
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