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3 - The Three Facets of Vis Populi: Re-articulating Active Citizenship

from Part II - Informal Revolutionary Practices (2011–2014)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

Benoît Challand
Benoît Challand
Affiliation:
The New School, New York
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Timing, spontaneity, and reassembled exclusions: these are the three facets of representation that have been reconnected with the 2011 Arab Uprisings. Undoing past Tunisian fragmentation and making revolutionary demands was at the heart of the new democratic efforts. Vis populi, presentism and new democratic subjectivity are best encapsulated by the case of Siliana. Chapter 3 also discusses the democratic and participatory dynamics in Yemen, with social outcasts occupying center stage. By and large, informal actors and networks have proposed truly revolutionary paths and solutions to the lack of democracy, but in the case of Yemen, the GCC hijacked the democratic process and limited the transition to an elite game.

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SpontaneityInformal coalitionsRevolutionary demandsSecurity reformsAli Abdallah SalahPresident Hadi
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Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings , pp. 175 - 229
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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