Title Tunisian Revolutions : reflections on seas, coasts, and interiors / Julia Clancy-Smith

Published [Washington, D.C.] : Georgetown University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 46 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) Contents Preludes and Postscripts: Of Baguettes and Social Protest -- Coastalization: Agriculture, Colonialism, and the Granary of Rome -- Coastalization and Globalization: Tourism, Profane and Sacred -- Mediterranean Women, Politics, and Islam -- Mediterranean Games, Politics, and Dissent -- From Sidi Bou Saʻid to Sidi Bouzid: Targets and Symbols Summary "In December 2010 an out-of-work Tunisian merchant, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire and precipitated the Arab Spring. Popular interpretations of Bouazizi's self-immolation viewed economic and political despair as the root of the Tunisian revolution, but as Julia Clancy-Smith points out, Tunisia's long history of revolutions and protest movements presents a far more complicated set of causes. Proposing a conceptual framework of "coastalization" v. "interiorization," Clancy-Smith examines Tunisia's last two centuries and demonstrates how geographical and environmental and social factors also lie behind that country's volatile 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 and religion and gender that have lead to a series of mass civic actions that continue to this day. Clancy-Smith proposes a fresh historical lens through which to view the relationship between spacial displacements, regionalization, and transnationalism."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-45) Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed April 2, 2015) Subject Tunisians. National characteristics, Tunisian. HISTORY -- Africa -- North. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. National characteristics, Tunisian Politics and government Tunisians SUBJECT Tunisia -- History -- 19th century Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 19th century Tunisia -- History -- 20th century Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 20th century Tunisia -- History -- 21st century Tunisia -- Politics and government -- 21st century Tunisia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97002499 Subject Tunisia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Georgetown University. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. ISBN 9781626162136 1626162131

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