Passive, Silent and Revolutionary

The ‘Arab Spring’ Revisited

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12980655
AutoresBillie Jeanne Brownlee (University of Exeter, autor de correspondencia), Maziyar Ghiabi (0000-0002-2171-2811, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas299-316
Fecha de publicación2016-05-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMiddle East Critique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1943-6149 • E-ISSN: 1943-6157
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19436149.2016.1177919
PMID27829987
OpenAlexW2398001086
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas22

To counter the trend toward mechanization of research and aridity of critical analysis, this article makes a case for an interdisciplinary quest. To borrow Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's phrase, we are convinced that 'everything is political, but every politics is simultaneously a macropolitics and a micropolitics.' With an eye to open-ended research questions, this article attempts to build a body of theoretical, political and anthropological considerations, which, it is hoped, could function as a case of enquiry into the mechanics of power, revolt and revolution. The objective is to draw comparative and phenomenological lines between the events of the 2011 'Arab Spring,' in its local ecologies of protest, with its global reverberations as materialized in the slogans, acts and ideals of Greek and Spanish Indignados and the UK and US occupy movements. In order to do so, it proposes to clarify terminological ambiguities and to bring into the analytical scenario new subjects, new means and new connections. The article resolves to lay the ground for a scholarship of silence, by which the set of unheard voices, hidden actions and defiant tactics of the ordinary, through extraordinary people, find place in the interpretation of phenomena such as revolts and revolutions

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