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6 - Strong Man Syndrome and the Resubjectivation of Citizenship

from Part III - Embattled Revolutionary Legacies (2014–2021)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

Benoît Challand
Benoît Challand
Affiliation:
The New School, New York
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Chapter 6 concludes with the impact of discourses for “security” and “stability,” and neo-imperial encroachment in Yemen. Both in Yemen and Tunisia, the syndrome of strong men, military or civilian, populates the collective imaginary, and generational conflicts preempt civic participation. In Tunisia, smaller spaces and the same habitus of everyday demands continue around examples of urban civility, and participation in municipalities and in the transitional justice. But the dialectics of change also includes actors justifying instability to shut spaces of civic participation down and calls for strong men to take control, such as the Presidential Coup of Kais Saied in Tunisia in July 2021.

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Stability and SecurityDiscourses of humanitarian interventionsRepression against cultural actorsJemna OasisCollective force of the peoplevis populidialectics of state-society relationsNeo-imperialism in YemenGulf actorsUAEKSASaudi Arabia;United Arab Emiratesterrorismstrong man syndromTransitional JusticeKais Saied
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Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings , pp. 323 - 378
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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