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Back on the Arab Spring

Abstract

Revisiting the Arab Spring - Drawing an analogy between the so-called « Arab Spring » and the sense of rebirth that wafted across Europe in 1848 proves useful from a heuristic perspective. Related exercises are more problematic. Among these are attempts to explain the events in question in terms of « Arabness » or « Islam » and to understand them as short-term developments, unrelated to social and political movements, whether local or further afield. The « Arab Spring » is many things simultaneously : conservative responses on the part of Islamic parties to popular mobilizations ; resurgences of authoritarianism ; conservative modernization ; civil war. Within the broader context of this diversity, the « Arab Spring » must be understood in light of stakes that transcend it. These include the reproduction and/or questioning of associated « authoritarian situations », the political economy thereof, asymetrical formations of the State on the ruins of the Ottoman and colonial empires, overlapping structures of power, ambivalent relationships entertained by ex-regimes with the social order and, notably, with the masses.

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