Abstract
The Arab uprisings of 2011 revealed how authoritarian stability provided a thick cover on political and economic structural changes in Arab societies. Of particular importance was the generational divide produced by decades of neoliberal development whose large youthful cohorts spoke with many voices during the Arab uprisings demanding liberty, social justice, and human dignity (karama). Not only did these demands highlight the failures of the neoliberal authoritarian state, but they also represented the contours of the “dignity revolutions” (Leigh 2014) as a societal alternative in the Arab public imaginaries.
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Hatem, M.F. (2016). The “Syrian Effects” and the Regional Quest for Human Dignity in the New Syrian, Egyptian, and Tunesian Constitutions. In: Beck, M., Jung, D., Seeberg, P. (eds) The Levant in Turmoil. The Modern Muslim World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137526021_7
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