Massimo Ramaioli
Biographic Data
| ID | 678835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Massimo Ramaioli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Massimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramaioli |
| SIGNATURE | RAMAIOLI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Al Akhawayn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9399-6254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cattivi Maestri: Intellectuals and Radical Political Mobilization
In this introduction to the Special Issue, we lay out the main lines of inquiry that guide our study. The main question addressed is the role of intellectuals in episodes of radical political mobilization, that is actions bent on challenging or upending the incumbent political order. In particular, we focus on the intellectuals’ production and intellectuals’ activity. To do this, we address in turn the questions of who can be considered an intell…
The Organic Intellectuals That Were Not and the Predicaments of the Islamic State
The role of the intellectuals in episodes of radical political mobilization is one of providers of leadership (moral, ideational, and programmatic) to a social formation to foster a given political project. In this article, I propose a Gramscian inspired analysis of the politics of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). I posit that its leadership sought to perform the role of “organic intellectuals” as theorized by Gramsci and thereby spur …
Opposition learning as capitulation: Communist parties’ trajectories in Iraq and Morocco
This article examines how the international environment influences the decision-making of opposition actors in the Arab world, with a focus on the communist parties. Theoretically, the article challenges the idea that the process of learning and adaptation that opposition parties have gone through across the Arab world and that allowed them to survive as organizations is the sole product of their interactions with the regime and with other opposi…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility
This piece provides an editorial introduction to the special issue on “Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility.”
Glocalities of Jihad: Aqim and Postcolonial States Resilience in West Africa
How has global jihadi militancy affected the security landscape of West African states? This paper examines this question by considering the cases of Algeria and Mali as they became theaters of Al-Qā'idah in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) jihadi project. This interaction is examined through the perspective of glocalization. It maintains that a global jihadi drive is refracted via the locales it comes to encounter, necessarily becoming em…
Salafism as Gramscian informed vanguardism
In this study, I offer a categorization of Salafism based on the concept of vanguardism. Vanguardism suggests how Salafis inhabit the political domain, by posing as the vanguard of a privileged group endowed with a historical mission. Relatedly, I summon the Gramscian concept of “philosophy of praxis.” With this, I intend to reconfigure Wiktorowicz’s classificatory scheme predicated on too stark an opposition between ‘aqīdah (theory) and manhaj (…
Interviewing Salafis
In chapter 10, Massimo Ramaioli provides advice on interviewing Salafis based on his experiences in Jordan. He shares 10 considerations with the readers: orientalism, ethics, risks, context, meetings, approach, language, ivory tower, muqābala (encounter/interview), and surprises. Salafis, insofar as it is possible to generalize, tend to share a rigid approach to Islam that may present a number of unusual and specific challenges to the researcher.…
Interviewing Salafis
In chapter 11, Zoltan Pall and Mohamed-Ali Adraoui provide a snapshot of stories from their practical experiences conducting research on Salafis in Lebanon, Kuwait, and France in order to illustrate how to deal with Salafis as subjects of social science inquiry and to provide broader lessons for future researchers. They discuss the challenges and difficulties they faced while conducting fieldwork that came from the Salafis’ distrust of western re…
Friends will be friends? External–domestic interactions in EU-Tunisia and EU-Morocco security cooperation after the uprisings
The Arab Uprisings in Theoretical Perspective – An Introduction
The so-called 'Arab Awakening' is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and policy makers. For over a decade the paradigm of authoritarian resilience had dominated studies of the Arab world, almost entirely replacing the democratization paradigm that had been prominent throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This inter-paradigm debate on how best to explain and interpret the politics of the Arab world now calls for a review, in light of the Arab…
Reforming the Family Code in Tunisia and Morocco – the Struggle between Religion, Globalisation and Democracy
There is no doubt that one of the most contentious terrains of contestation in the supposed clash of values between Islamism and western values is the role of women in society. Thus, the issue of women's rights has become the litmus test for Arab societies with respect to the current zeitgeist of human rights in the age of democracy and liberalism. There is today a stereotypical view of debates surrounding women's rights in the Arab world where t…
Neither Participation nor Revolution: The Strategy of the Moroccan Jamiat al-Adl wal-Ihsan
Scholars and students of Islamist movements are divided over the issue of Islamists' commitment to democracy and a number of studies have attempted to discover the true nature of Islamist parties. This paper rejects this approach and argues that the behaviour of Islamist parties can be better understood through an analysis of the constraints and opportunities that their surrounding environment provides. Specifically, the paper aims at explaining …
The Arab Uprisings in Theoretical Perspective – An Introduction
The so-called 'Arab Awakening' is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and policy makers. For over a decade the paradigm of authoritarian resilience had dominated studies of the Arab world, almost entirely replacing the democratization paradigm that had been prominent throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This inter-paradigm debate on how best to explain and interpret the politics of the Arab world now calls for a review, in light of the Arab…
Neither Participation nor Revolution: The Strategy of the Moroccan Jamiat al-Adl wal-Ihsan
Scholars and students of Islamist movements are divided over the issue of Islamists' commitment to democracy and a number of studies have attempted to discover the true nature of Islamist parties. This paper rejects this approach and argues that the behaviour of Islamist parties can be better understood through an analysis of the constraints and opportunities that their surrounding environment provides. Specifically, the paper aims at explaining …
Friends will be friends? External–domestic interactions in EU-Tunisia and EU-Morocco security cooperation after the uprisings
Salafism as Gramscian informed vanguardism
In this study, I offer a categorization of Salafism based on the concept of vanguardism. Vanguardism suggests how Salafis inhabit the political domain, by posing as the vanguard of a privileged group endowed with a historical mission. Relatedly, I summon the Gramscian concept of “philosophy of praxis.” With this, I intend to reconfigure Wiktorowicz’s classificatory scheme predicated on too stark an opposition between ‘aqīdah (theory) and manhaj (…
Neither Participation nor Revolution: The Strategy of the Moroccan Jamiat al-Adl wal-Ihsan
Scholars and students of Islamist movements are divided over the issue of Islamists' commitment to democracy and a number of studies have attempted to discover the true nature of Islamist parties. This paper rejects this approach and argues that the behaviour of Islamist parties can be better understood through an analysis of the constraints and opportunities that their surrounding environment provides. Specifically, the paper aims at explaining …
Reforming the Family Code in Tunisia and Morocco – the Struggle between Religion, Globalisation and Democracy
There is no doubt that one of the most contentious terrains of contestation in the supposed clash of values between Islamism and western values is the role of women in society. Thus, the issue of women's rights has become the litmus test for Arab societies with respect to the current zeitgeist of human rights in the age of democracy and liberalism. There is today a stereotypical view of debates surrounding women's rights in the Arab world where t…
The Arab Uprisings in Theoretical Perspective – An Introduction
The so-called 'Arab Awakening' is a momentous event that surprised both scholars and policy makers. For over a decade the paradigm of authoritarian resilience had dominated studies of the Arab world, almost entirely replacing the democratization paradigm that had been prominent throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This inter-paradigm debate on how best to explain and interpret the politics of the Arab world now calls for a review, in light of the Arab…
Interviewing Salafis
In chapter 10, Massimo Ramaioli provides advice on interviewing Salafis based on his experiences in Jordan. He shares 10 considerations with the readers: orientalism, ethics, risks, context, meetings, approach, language, ivory tower, muqābala (encounter/interview), and surprises. Salafis, insofar as it is possible to generalize, tend to share a rigid approach to Islam that may present a number of unusual and specific challenges to the researcher.…
Interviewing Salafis
In chapter 11, Zoltan Pall and Mohamed-Ali Adraoui provide a snapshot of stories from their practical experiences conducting research on Salafis in Lebanon, Kuwait, and France in order to illustrate how to deal with Salafis as subjects of social science inquiry and to provide broader lessons for future researchers. They discuss the challenges and difficulties they faced while conducting fieldwork that came from the Salafis’ distrust of western re…
Friends will be friends? External–domestic interactions in EU-Tunisia and EU-Morocco security cooperation after the uprisings
Salafism as Gramscian informed vanguardism
In this study, I offer a categorization of Salafism based on the concept of vanguardism. Vanguardism suggests how Salafis inhabit the political domain, by posing as the vanguard of a privileged group endowed with a historical mission. Relatedly, I summon the Gramscian concept of “philosophy of praxis.” With this, I intend to reconfigure Wiktorowicz’s classificatory scheme predicated on too stark an opposition between ‘aqīdah (theory) and manhaj (…
Glocalities of Jihad: Aqim and Postcolonial States Resilience in West Africa
How has global jihadi militancy affected the security landscape of West African states? This paper examines this question by considering the cases of Algeria and Mali as they became theaters of Al-Qā'idah in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) jihadi project. This interaction is examined through the perspective of glocalization. It maintains that a global jihadi drive is refracted via the locales it comes to encounter, necessarily becoming em…
Cattivi Maestri: Intellectuals and Radical Political Mobilization
In this introduction to the Special Issue, we lay out the main lines of inquiry that guide our study. The main question addressed is the role of intellectuals in episodes of radical political mobilization, that is actions bent on challenging or upending the incumbent political order. In particular, we focus on the intellectuals’ production and intellectuals’ activity. To do this, we address in turn the questions of who can be considered an intell…
The Organic Intellectuals That Were Not and the Predicaments of the Islamic State
The role of the intellectuals in episodes of radical political mobilization is one of providers of leadership (moral, ideational, and programmatic) to a social formation to foster a given political project. In this article, I propose a Gramscian inspired analysis of the politics of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). I posit that its leadership sought to perform the role of “organic intellectuals” as theorized by Gramsci and thereby spur …
Opposition learning as capitulation: Communist parties’ trajectories in Iraq and Morocco
This article examines how the international environment influences the decision-making of opposition actors in the Arab world, with a focus on the communist parties. Theoretically, the article challenges the idea that the process of learning and adaptation that opposition parties have gone through across the Arab world and that allowed them to survive as organizations is the sole product of their interactions with the regime and with other opposi…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility
This piece provides an editorial introduction to the special issue on “Resisting Surveillance Through Data Visibility and Invisibility.”
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