Crises of Authority in the Arab World
Readings from Contemporary Tunisia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12980693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giulia Cimini (0000-0001-5090-6415, University of Bologna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1943-6149 • E-ISSN: 1943-6157 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19436149.2024.2408098 |
| OpenAlex | W4402994658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 37 |
Antonio Gramsci’s thought has increasingly inspired the study of the contemporary MENA, reaching far beyond the complex and specific details of politics, history, and culture in which his writings are steeped. Taking the cue from a new generation of Gramscian research, this article provides an additional temporal and geographical test case for such critical scholarship. Through primary and secondary sources, it deploys a Gramscian toolkit to empirically explore the first post-2011 uprisings decade in Tunisia. It argues that the country is mired in an ‘interregnum’ condition due to the combined effect of a ‘crisis of authority’ from above and lacking viable alternatives from below. Since opposing masses advanced disorganized yet revolutionary claims, leadership hinging on consensus to pursue ‘great political feats’—from delivering substantive democracy through political and socio-economic change to navigating the country during Covid-19—continued to fail. Whereas protests persistently pointed to the distance between political elites and the ‘people,’ the hyper-homogenizing look at the latter unmasked citizenry’s lack of cohesion and homogeneity. This ‘double fragmentation’ of the ruling—and, eventually, dominant—classes and the subaltern groups adds to the unbridged disjoin between them for the crisis to persist, and thus reopens the way to coercion
Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
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Morbid Symptoms
Using Gramsci
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The Forms of a Travelling Theory
Democracy Without Social Justice
Molecular Transformations
God loves the rich.” The Economic Policy of Ennahda
The EU's First Response to the ‘Arab Spring’
Shifting Priorities or Business as Usual? Continuity and Change in the post-2011 IMF and World Bank Engagement with Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt
Securitization of the unemployed and counter-conductive resistance in Tunisia
The Arab Revolts
The rise and decline of the populist social contract in the Arab world
Citizens’ understanding of the social contract
Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment
The struggles of precarious youth in Tunisia
Introduction
People Want
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
Democratization Theory and the “Arab Spring
Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the TunisianEnnahdafrom fundamentalist to conservative party
Democratic regression in comparative perspective
Learning mechanisms within an Islamist party
Between old and new epistemological paradigms
Revolution and transition in Tunisia as crises of hegemony
Introduction
Prelude to the revolution. Independent civic activists in Mubarak's Egypt and the quest for hegemony
Let's talk about the interregnum
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |