Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens: Power, Positionality, and the Public Sphere

Antonakis, Anna

Anna Antonakis’ analysis of the Tunisian transformation process (2011-2014) displays how negotiations of gender initiating new political orders do not only happen in legal and political institutions but also in media representations and on a daily basis in the family and public space. While conventionalized as a “model for the region”, this book outlines how the Tunisian transformation missed to address social inequalities and local marginalization as much as substantial challenges of a secular but conservative gender order inscribed in a Western hegemonic concept of modernity. She introduces the concept of “dissembled secularism” to explain major conflict lines in the public sphere and the exploitation of gender politics in a context of post-colonial dependencies. 

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Published by: Springer VS

Publication Date: 2019-04-17

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783658256388

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-25639-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 260