The Arab Spring Uncoiled

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Mobilization Pub Date : 2012-12-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.17.4.10326742N0556V15

Charles Kurzman

引用次数: 38

Abstract

If this special issue on Middle East protest had been published two years ago, it probably would have focused more on accounting for the failure of opposition movements than accountting for their successes. Since the "Arab Spring" emerged in the winter of 2011, however, observers have rushed to explain mass revolts in the region. This introduction to the special issue reviews some of the explanations offered for these extraordinary events, and finds that the factors that are frequently cited in these explanations do not map comfortably onto the sites of greatest protest in the region. The essay then suggests an alternative approach, one that looks past causation in an attempt to understand the lived experience of the uprisings. The goal is to examine how actors changed as they perceived the possibility of protest, how they made meaning of their lives through the act of protesting, or not protesting, during moments of exceptional confusion and stress. This approach focuses on the twists of history that con...

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如果这期关于中东抗议的特刊在两年前出版，它可能会更多地关注于解释反对派运动的失败，而不是解释他们的成功。然而，自2011年冬季“阿拉伯之春”出现以来，观察家们纷纷对该地区的大规模反抗做出解释。本期特刊的引言回顾了对这些特殊事件的一些解释，并发现这些解释中经常引用的因素并不能很好地映射到该地区最严重的抗议地点。这篇文章随后提出了另一种方法，一种着眼于过去的因果关系，试图理解起义的生活经历的方法。目的是研究演员如何改变，因为他们认为抗议的可能性，他们如何通过抗议的行为，或不抗议，他们的生活的意义，在特殊的混乱和压力的时刻。这种方法关注的是历史的曲折。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.