While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.

Includes the analysis of a number of neglected or even completely unexplored subjects such as the role of the Amazigh population during the Arab Spring, a sociological analysis of the Ultras in Egypt during popular uprisings, and the formation and institutionalization of anarchical movements in Egypt Chapters engage directly with events and phenomena that are of great relevance in contemporary political processes of interest to the general public, not just to a specialized audience

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Jan Wilkens, University of Hamburg, Germany Mishana Hosseinioun, University of Oxford, UK Anastasia Nosova, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Aula Hariri, Queen Mary University of London, UK Jasmine Gani, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Inez von Weitershausen, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Eugenio Lilli, King's College London, UK David Zarnett, University of Toronto , Canada Suzanne Morrison, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Magdalena C. Delgado, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK O?uzhan Göksel, Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkey Suzan Gibril, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Cleo Jay, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Laura Galián, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Ay?e Dursun, University of Vienna, Austria Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Birce Alt?ok-Kar??yaka, Koç University, Turkey Kerem Y?ld?r?m, Koç University, Turkey Pascal Debruyne, Ghent University, Belgium Christopher Parker, Ghent University, Belgium Ala?a Tartir, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Hadi Makarem, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Harry Pettit, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Introduction Contextualizing The Arab Uprisings: Different Regimes, Different Revolutions And Different Trajectories; Fawaz A Gerges PART I 1. Contention And Constitutionalisation In The Global Realm: Assessing The Uprisings In West Asia And North Africa For International Politics; Jan Wilkens 2. Reconceptualizing Resistance And Reform In The Middle East; Mishana Hosseinioun 3. Kuwaiti Arab Spring? The Role Of Transnational Factors In Kuwait's Contentious Politics; Anastasia Nosova 4. The Iraqi Independence Movement: A Case Of Transgressive Contention; Aula Hariri PART II 5. Contentious Politics And The Syrian Crisis: Internationalisation And Militarisation Of Conflict; Jasmine Gani 6. Foreign Engagement In Contentious Politics: Europe And The 2011 Uprisings In Libya; Inez Von Weitershausen 7. Foreign Actors: A Double-Edged Sword Over Contentious Politics In The Middle East; Eugenio Lilli 8. Transnationalized Domestic Contention: Explaining The Varying Level Of Western Solidarity Given To Kurds And Palestinians; David Zarnett 9. The Emergence Of The Boycott, Divestment, And Sanctions Movement; Suzanne Morrison PART III 10. Contentious Copts: The Emergence, Success And Decline Of Maspero Youth Movement In Egypt; Magdalena C. Delgado 11. From Progress To Order: The 'Kurdish Openings' And Limits To Contentious Politics In Turkey; Oguzhan Göksel 12. Contentious Politics And Bottom-Up Mobilisation In Revolutionary Egypt: The Case Of Egyptian Football Supporters In Cairo; Suzan Gibril 13. A Berber Spring: The Breakthrough Of Amazigh Minorities In The Uprisings' Aftermath; Cleo Jay PART IV 14. New Modes Of Collective Actions: The Reemergence Of Anarchism In Egypt; Laura Galián 15. Muslim Groups In The Gezi Park Protests: Identity Politics And Contentious Politics Under Authoritarian Neoliberalism; Ayse Dursun 16. Claiming 'Marginal Space': The Contentious Politics Of 'Citizenship' Among Palestinian Feminists In Israel; Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe 17. Characteristics Of Prolonged Social Movements: The Case Of Gezi Park Protests; Birce Altiok-Karsiyaka And Kerem Yildirim 18. Reassembling The Political: Placing Contentious Politics In Jordan; Christopher Parker & Pascal Debruyne PART V 19. Contentious Economics In Occupied Palestine; Alaa Tartir 20. The Bottom-Up Mobilization Of Lebanese Society Against Neoliberal Institutions: The Case Of Opposition Against Solidere's Reconstruction Of Downtown Beirut; Hadi Makarem 21. Iftar In Mcdonald's: The Everyday Encroachment Of Cairo's Subaltern Cosmopolitans; Harry Pettit Conclusions; John Chalcraft