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dc.contributor.authorBrownlee, BJ
dc.contributor.authorGhiabi, M
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-07T10:15:20Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-20
dc.description.abstractTo 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.citationVol. 25 (3), pp. 299 - 316en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19436149.2016.1177919
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/31907
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27829987en_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.subjectArab Springen_GB
dc.subjectISISen_GB
dc.subjectIndignadosen_GB
dc.subjectIslamic stateen_GB
dc.subjectOrientalismen_GB
dc.subjectcivil societyen_GB
dc.subjectcounterrevolutionen_GB
dc.subjectrevolutionen_GB
dc.subjectscholarship of silenceen_GB
dc.subjectsocial movementen_GB
dc.titlePassive, Silent and Revolutionary: The 'Arab Spring' Revisited.en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2018-03-07T10:15:20Z
dc.identifier.issn1943-6149
exeter.place-of-publicationEnglanden_GB
dc.descriptionThis 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.journalMiddle East Critiqueen_GB


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