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Book SynopsisThe aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Generations and Protests Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part 1: Forms of Protest and the Production of Generations 1 Palestinian Youth in Israel: A New Generational Style of Activism? Mohammad Massalha, Ilana Kaufman and Gal Levy 2 From Student to General Struggle: The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary Italy Lorenzo Cini 3 Lawyers Mobilizing in the Tunisian Uprising: A Matter of ‘generations’? Éric Gobe Part 2: Genealogies of Generational Formations 4 2003: A Turning Point in the Formation of Syrian Youth Matthieu Rey 5 Together, but Divided: Trajectories of a Generation of Egyptian Political Activists (from 2005 to the Revolution) Chaymaa Hassabo 6 The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in Turkey Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz Part 3: Memory, History and the “New Generation” 7 ‘Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil Oslo Sunaina Maira 8 The Double Presence of Southern Algerians: Space, Generation and Unemployment Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 9 “We are not heiresses”: Generational Memory, Heritage and Inheritance in Contemporary Italian Feminism Andrea Hajek 10 Echoes of Ricardo Mella: Reading Twenty-First Century Youth Protest Movements through the Lens of an Early Twentieth-Century Anarchist Stephen Luis Vilaseca
