BISA 2025 Conference

Protests: Cases, Lessons, Critiques

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 09:00

1h 30m

Panel International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East & Asia Working Group

Description

We examine a range of protest and social movement case studies across the Middle East to identify comparisons, lessons, and critiques.

Subcontributions

• The Arab Spring and Intellectual Intervention: Were the Revolutions Pro-Democracy Movements?
• A decolonial critique of the nonviolent resistance literature on Western Sahara (and beyond)
• Informal institutionalisation in social movements: New frameworks through Iraq and Argentina
• Why Do We Protest? A Comprehensive Model for Understanding Individual’s Willingness to Protest
• Lessons in Transformative Politics beyond the Identity Paradigm From Jordan's Popular Movement