dc.contributor.author | Brownlee, BJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Ghiabi, M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-07T10:15:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-05-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 25 (3), pp. 299 - 316 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/19436149.2016.1177919 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31907 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27829987 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Arab Spring | en_GB |
dc.subject | ISIS | en_GB |
dc.subject | Indignados | en_GB |
dc.subject | Islamic state | en_GB |
dc.subject | Orientalism | en_GB |
dc.subject | civil society | en_GB |
dc.subject | counterrevolution | en_GB |
dc.subject | revolution | en_GB |
dc.subject | scholarship of silence | en_GB |
dc.subject | social movement | en_GB |
dc.title | Passive, Silent and Revolutionary: The 'Arab Spring' Revisited. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-07T10:15:20Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1943-6149 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is freely available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Middle East Critique | en_GB |