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122363
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If the Arab Spring were to bring about meaningful changes to Arab societies, what is needed is a political order that is not only democratic but also inclusive. To be credible, the Arab world, including its Islamists, will have to tread the long and painful path of consensus building. This method is inclusive and hence more enduring than electoral democracy.
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153730
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Geopolitical events and developments can hardly be detached from the mundane lives where people confront politicised and politicising matters, share meaningful experiences, build attitudes, and take action. To contribute to understanding how large-scale geopolitics connect with the everyday, this article draws attention to political subjectivity as the condition of possibility of political agency and polis as the geosocial context of political life as experienced, conceived, and practised. Empirically, the paper engages with the tragic end of Mohamed Bouazizi’s life and scrutinises his role in the events and developments generally known as the Arab Spring. Our analysis contests both the dominant interpretation that postulates political import to his acts, and the alternative account that underscores his apolitical stance. Instead, we propose that the international politicisation of Mohamed Bouazizi’s agency unfolded as an accomplishment of many individual and collective actors, including Bouazizi himself in his struggle to cope with emergent aspects of his everyday life.
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120226
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2013.
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The Arab Spring was triggered by the self-immolation of a Tunisian salesman leading to protests by ordinary people empathising with the salesman and demanding bread, jobs and a change in the lives of the youth. With the expansion of the movement to include internal and external political opposition, and in response to the hard-line tactics of beleaguered leaders, the focus of the uprising became a clarion call for leadership changes. However, two years after the start of these uprisings, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are still in a state of crisis, even though new leaders have been elected into power. Thus, to contribute to the early detection of similar uprisings, their prevention and resolution, this article refocuses discourse and policy decisions about the Arab Spring back to the original demands of the protestors and to its root causes, namely the demand for improved lives. This will be done by analysing the life, death and memorial of the father of the Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi.
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