INAF3967 (INAF3967)

class notes and case studies on social mobilisation across the Arab world

there are significant links between the challenges faced by migrant workers in the Gulf Arab states and more general concerns about economic justice, mobility, and inequality. Their precarious existence and labor activism are linked to the ongoing struggles in South Asia's political economy against land dispossession, caste oppression, and lack of opportunity. The significance of coalition-building that recognizes past debts and complicity in exploitation, as well as the interconnectedness of i...

there are significant links between the challenges faced by migrant workers in the Gulf Arab states and more general concerns about economic justice, mobility, and inequality. Their precarious existence and labor activism are linked to the ongoing struggles in South Asia's political economy against land dispossession, caste oppression, and lack of opportunity. The significance of coalition-building that recognizes past debts and complicity in exploitation, as well as the interconnectedness of i...

Within the theoretical framework of Henri Lefebvre’s focus on the urban sphere as a space for political contestation, scholarship analyzing the dynamics of Middle Eastern social movements usually focused on prominent locations of large-scale protest. In the context of the Arab Spring, these included Tahrir Square in Egypt or Sahat al-Safat and later Sahat al-Irada in Kuwait. Nevertheless, explanations of contentious politics in everyday spatial practices that initiate and mold persistent cycle...