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

  • from Part II - Informal Revolutionary Practices (2011–2014)
  • Benoît Challand, The New School, New York
  • Book:
    Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
    Published online:
    02 February 2023
    Print publication:
    09 February 2023, pp 175-229

  • Summary

    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.