The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab uprising, Gilbert Achcar, translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian

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The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab uprising, Gilbert Achcar, translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian

Title remainder

a radical exploration of the Arab uprising

Statement of responsibility

Gilbert Achcar, translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian

Instantiates

• The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab uprising

Publication

• Berkeley, University of California Press, 2013

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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text

Content type MARC source

rdacontent.

Contents

1.Fettered Development -- The Facts -- Poverty, Inequality, Precarity -- Informal Sector and Unemployment: The Bouazizi Syndrome -- Youth Underemployment -- Female Underemployment -- Graduate Unemployment -- Fetters on Development -- 2.The Peculiar Modalities of Capitalism in the Arab Region -- The Problem of Investment -- Public and Private Investment -- A Specific Variant of the Capitalist Mode of Production -- 1.Rentier and Patrimonial States -- 2.A Politically Determined Capitalism: Nepotism and Risk -- The Genesis of the Specific Regional Variant of Capitalism: An Overview -- 3.Regional Political Factors -- The Oil Curse -- From "Arab Despotic Exception" to "Democracy Promotion" -- The Muslim Brothers, Washington and the Saudis -- The Muslim Brothers, Washington and Qatar -- Al Jazeera and the Upheaval in the Arab Mediascape -- 4.Actors and Parameters of the Revolution -- Overdetermination and Subjective Conditions -- Contents note continued: The Workers' Movement and Social Struggles -- New Actors and New Information and Communication Technologies -- States and Revolutions -- 5.A Provisional Balance Sheet of the Arab Uprising -- Coups d'Etat and Revolutions -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 1: Tunisia -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 2: Egypt -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 3: Yemen -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 4: Bahrain -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 5: Libya -- Provisional Balance Sheet No. 6: Syria -- 6.Co-Opting the Uprising -- Washington and the Muslim Brothers, Take Two -- Nato, Libya, and Syria -- The "Islamic Tsunami" and the Difference between Khomeini and Morsi -- CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF THE ARAB UPRISING -- The Difference between Erdogan and Ghannouchi... -- ... And the Difference between Erdogan and Morsi -- Conditions for a Genuine Solution

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FIEb17536911

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23 cm.

Extent

xii, 310 pages

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9780520274976

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• unmediated
• volume

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• rdamedia.
• rdacarrier.

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illustrations

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u304976

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(OCoLC)838792306