Resonance of the Arab Spring

Solidarities and youth opinion in the Global South

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6299693
AutoresAdam K Webb (0000-0001-9688-950X, Johns Hopkins University, Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, China, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen39
Número2
Páginas290-305
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0192512116666391
OpenAlexW2586026940
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas28

The Arab Spring exemplifies to many a kind of globalisation from below. It cuts across borders and challenges liberal and technocratic élites. But how far does its global resonance really go? Are publics still largely corralled within national political spaces? Are waves of revolt confined by civilisational breakwaters? Or is the cosmopolitan space that many leftists envision taking shape? Based on a three-country survey of university students, this article probes these assumptions. It finds far-reaching solidarity with the aspirations of the Arab Spring, driven by the rise of a cross-border global society. But on probing the bases of such solidarity, it also finds that the cosmopolitan cohort emerging in the Global South does not fit a simple liberal or leftist mould. The Arab Spring resonates on multiple frequencies at the same time. This complex cosmopolitanism has implications for layers of common ground as global political opportunity structures emerge

Cosmopolitanism · Democracy · Dichotomy · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Technocracy · Universal suffrage · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law