International Workshop
Social Movements & Contentious Politics in the Arab World Since 2011 in A Global Perspective:
Diffusion, Practices, Organizations and Political Dimensions
Université Paris Dauphine — IRISSO (UMR 7170 CNRS)
Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
April 2017, 27th-28th
PROGRAM
Registration required here
Wednesday April 26th
18H30-20H30 : Debate at the restaurant La Colonie (128 Rue la Fayette, 75010 Paris)— Social Movements in the Arab World: Past & Present
Thursday April 27th, Room A709
9H30-9H45: Opening introduction — Choukri Hmed & Hèla Yousfi
PANEL 1 (9H45-11H15): WORKERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES
Session moderated by Hèla Yousfi (Paris Dauphine, DRM)
– Ranime AlSheltawy (Paris Dauphine, IRISSO), « Les femmes de ménage égyptiennes s’organisent : ce que le genre et la classe font à l’engagement »
Discussant : Soraya El Kahlaoui
– Bogumila Hall (Center on Social Movements Studies, Scuola normale superiore, Florence), « Thinking about the state. Sanitation workers in Yemen and disengagement from the popular revolution »
Discussant : Amal Nazzal
– Nabil Abdo (American University of Beirut) : « Workers and Unions without a Movement in Lebanon »
Discussant: Bogumila Hall
11H15-11H30 : Coffee break
PANEL 2: (11H30-13H) WHEN MARGINS REBEL: POLITICAL & ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES
Session moderated by Choukri Hmed (Paris Dauphine, IRISSO)
– Lorenzo Feltrin (University of Warwick, IRMC/Tunis), « The Struggles of the Precarious Youth in Tunisia: The Case of the Kerkennah Movement »
Discussant : Nabil Abdo
– Amal Nazzal (University of Exeter), « Exploring the Mechanisms and Dynamics of Politically-Motivated Youth Movements in Palestine: A Bourdieusian Perspective » :
Discussant : Lorenzo Fletrin
– Soraya El Kahlaoui (Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux, EHESS), « Reconfigurations politiques et luttes autour du droit au logement au Maroc (2011-2016) Discussant : Ranime Alsheltawy
PANEL 3: (15H-16H30) WHEN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS TARGET POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
Session moderated by Dina El Khawaga (American University of Beirut)
– Carole Kerbage (Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut), « Politics of Coincidence: the Harak Confronts its “Peoples” in Lebanon »
Discussant : Jérome Drevon
– Cherine Hussein (Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Danish Institute of International Studies), « The Single State Solution: Vision, Obstacles and Dilemmas of a Re-Emergent Alternative in Flux »
Discussant : Sbeih Sbeih
– Jérôme Drevon (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), « The Introduction of Salafi Jihadi Ideology into Civil Wars: Rationales, Consequences, and Regulations »
Discussant : Nikolas Kosmatopoulos (American University of Beirut)
16H30-17H: Coffee break
17H30-19H : Conference & Book Presentation « Popular and Contentious Politics in the Middle East » by our keynote speakers : Maha Abdelrahman (Egypt’s Long Revolution: Protest Movements and Uprisings, Routledge, 2015) and John Chalcraft (Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Friday April 28th, Room Cbis
PANEL 4 (9H30-11H): NGO & CIVIL SOCIETY, CRITICAL APPROACHES (1)
Session moderated by John Chalcraft (London School of Economics & Political Science, Department of Government)
– Sbeih Sbeih (Laboratoire Printemps, IFPO), « Reconfiguration du politique par le développement : le cas des ONG palestiniennes », Discussant: Assia Boutaleb (Université de Tours)
– Luke Bhatia (University of Manchester), « Social Movements in Authoritarian Regimes: the Genesis and Evolution of the Human Rights Movement in Bahrain », Discussant: Marion Lecoquierre
– Marion Lecoquierre (European University Institute, Florence), « Indigenous response: the Bedouins of the Negev between local and international action », Discussant: Cherine Hussein
11H-11H15 : Coffee break
PANEL 5 (11H15-12H45): NGO & CIVIL SOCIETY, CRITICAL APPROACHES (2)
Session moderated by Maha Abderahman (Cambridge University, Department of Politics & International Studies)
– Jan-Erik Refle (Université de Lausanne, IEPHI), « Civil society networks and influence. Tunisian networks of organizations and movements guarantee the on-going democratization in Tunisia » Discussant: Luke Bahtia
– Thierry Desrues, Ana Velsaco Arranz, Hamida Elbour, « Some dimensions of the social and political activism of young Maghrebi people after the “Arab spring”: the case of the organizations present at the Tunis World Social Forum », Discussant: Ester Sigillo
– Ester Sigillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy/IRMC, Tunis), »From ‘contention’ to ’engagement’? Analysis of the institutionalization of Islamic charities in post-revolutionary Tunisia », Discussant: Thierry Desrues
12H45-13H15 : Concluding Remarks