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Feminist Networks in Times of Multi-layered Transformations: Perspectives from Tunisia

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In Western scholarship and policy analysis, Tunisia has been singled out since its independence in 1956 as a “model for modernity” in the region of the Middle East and North African (MENA) with the first president after independence, Habib Bourguiba introducing progressive women’s rights. With the uprisings in 2010/2011, Tunisia again stood out, and this time as the country where the so-called Arab Spring started and information and communication technologies (ICTs) were used to overthrow dictatorship. Here, the narrative of the “Facebook revolution” took its starting point where ICTs were framed as tools of emancipation and empowerment.

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Antonakis, A. (2018). Feminist Networks in Times of Multi-layered Transformations: Perspectives from Tunisia. In: Richter, C., Antonakis, A., Harders, C. (eds) Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia. Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20700-7_7

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