{"product_id":"tunisian-revolutions-reflections-on-seas-coasts-and-interiors-paperback","title":"Tunisian Revolutions: Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and Interiors - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulia Clancy-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation presented economic and political oppression by the Ben Ali regimes as the root causes of widespread social despair that triggered the Tunisian revolution. Yet as Julia Clancy-Smith points out, Tunisia's long history of organized political activism and protest movements suggests a far more complicated set of processes. Proposing a conceptual framework of \"coastalization\" vs. \"interiorization,\" Clancy-Smith examines Tunisia's last two centuries and demonstrates how geographical and environmental and social factors also lie behind that country's modern political history. Within this framework Clancy-Smith explores how Tunisia's coast became a Mediterranean playground for transnational elites, a mecca of tourism, while its interior agrarian regions suffered increasing neglect and marginalization. This distinction has had a profound impact on the fate of Tunisia and has manifested itself in divisive debates over politics, the state, and religion as well as women's socio-legal status that have led to a series of mass civic actions culminating in revolution. Clancy-Smith proposes a fresh historical lens through which to view the relationship between spacial displacements, regionalization, and transnationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgetown Shorts--longer than an article, shorter than a book--deliver timely works of peer-reviewed scholarship in a fast-paced, agile environment. They present new ideas and original texts that are easily and widely available to students, scholars, libraries, and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Clancy-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at the University of Arizona. She is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eMediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 52\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 21, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42166294052999,"sku":"9781626162310","price":23.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3e0dd899725c9195be3846f61ccb1746.webp?v=1733319829","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/tunisian-revolutions-reflections-on-seas-coasts-and-interiors-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}