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Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens Rachid Ouaissa · Friederike Pannewick Alena Strohmaier Editors Re-Configurations Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens Series Editors Martin Beck, Institute of History, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Cilja Harders, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany Annette Jünemann, Institut für Internationale Politik, Helmut Schmidt Universität, Hamburg, Germany Rachid Ouaissa, Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Stud, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany Stephan Stetter, Institut für Politikwissenschaften, Universität der Bundeswehr München, München, Germany Die Reihe beschäftigt sich mit aktuellen Entwicklungen und Umbruc̈ hen in Nor- dafrika, dem Nahen Osten, der Golfregion und darüber hinaus. Die politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Dynamiken in der Region sind von hoher globaler Bedeutung und sie strahlen intensiv auf Europa aus. Die Reihe behandelt die gesa- mte Bandbreite soziopolitischer Themen in der Region: Veränderungen in Kon ikt- mustern und Kooperationsbeziehungen in Folge der Arabischen Revolten 2010/11 wie etwa Euro-Arabische und Euro-Mediterrane Beziehungen oder den Nahost- kon ikt. Auf nationaler Ebene geht es um Themen wie Reform, Transformation und Autoritarismus, Islam und Islamismus, soziale Bewegungen, Geschlechterver- hältnisse aber auch energie- und umweltpolitische Fragen, Migrationsdynamiken oder neue Entwicklungen in der Politischen Ökonomie. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf innovativen politikwissenschaftlichen Werken, die die gesamte theoretische Breite des Faches abdecken. Eingang nden aber auch Beiträge aus anderen sozialwissen- schaftlichen Disziplinen, die relevante politische Zusammenhänge behandeln. This book series focuses on key developments in the Middle East and North Africa as well as the Gulf and beyond. The regions’ political, economic and social dynam- ics are of high global signi cance, not the least for Europe. The book series covers the whole range of the ongoing transformations in the region, such as new develop- ments in regional con ict and cooperation after the uprisings of 2010/2011 includ- ing Euro-Arab and Euro-Mediterranean relations, or the Israeli-Palestinian con ict. On a (trans)national level, volumes in the series look at authoritarianism and reform, social movements, gender dynamics, Islam and Islamism, political econ- omy, migration, as well as energy and environmental issues. The series focuses on innovative work in all sub-disciplines of political science and other social sciences disciplines that address political developments in the Middle East. Dr. Martin Beck ist Professor für gegenwartsbezogene Nahost-Studien an der University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Dänemark. Dr. Cilja Harders ist Professorin für Politikwissenschaft und Leiterin der „Arbe- itsstelle Politik im Maghreb, Mashreq, Golf“ am Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politik- wissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin, Deutschland. Dr. Annette Jünemann ist Professorin für Politikwissenschaft am Institut für Inter- nationale Politik der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, Universität der Bun- deswehr Hamburg, Deutschland. Dr. Rachid Ouaissa ist Professor fur̈ Politik des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens am Cen- trum fur̈ Nah- und Mittelost-Studien der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschland. Dr. Stephan Stetter ist Professor für Internationale Politik und Kon iktforschung an der Universität der Bundeswehr München, Deutschland. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/12508 Rachid Ouaissa · Friederike Pannewick · Alena Strohmaier Editors Re-Con gurations Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa Editors Rachid Ouaissa Friederike Pannewick Marburg, Hessen, Germany Marburg, Hessen, Germany Alena Strohmaier Marburg, Hessen, Germany ISSN 2626-224X ISSN 2626-2258 (electronic) Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens ISBN 978-3-658-31159-9 ISBN 978-3-658-31160-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31160-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021. This book is an open access publication. 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Rachid Ouaissa Friederike Pannewick Alena Strohmaier v Contents Introduction .................................................. 1 Rachid Ouaissa, Friederike Pannewick and Alena Strohmaier Political Re-Con gurings and Transregional Ties Spatializing Memory and Justice in Transformation Processes ........ 25 Susanne Buckley-Zistel Tunisia’s Re-Con gurations and Transitional Justice in Process: How Planned Processes of Social and Political Change Interplay with Unplanned Political Dynamics ................................... 37 Mariam Salehi Algeria: Between Transformation and Re-Con guration ............. 51 Rachid Ouaissa The International and the Construction of Opposition in Iran ........ 65 Thorsten Bonacker and Tareq Sydiq Tangier’s Current Re-Con gurations from a Multi-Scale Spatial Perspective: Emerging Transregional Ties and Local Repercussions ... 83 Steffen Wippel 1968 and the “Long 1960s”: A Transregional Perspective ............ 105 Claudia Derichs vii viii Contents Social Re-Con gurings and Generational Challenges The Survival of the Kurdish Chicken: Uneven Development and Nationalist Discourse in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ........... 119 Andrea Fischer-Tahir The Infantilization of the Colonized: Medical and Psychiatric Descriptions of Drinking Habits in the Colonial Maghreb ............ 135 Nina S. Studer National Memory in the Making: Gendered Re-Con gurations of Martyrdom in Post-revolutionary Tunisia ....................... 153 Perrine Lachenal Teachers’ Resistance to Educational Change and Innovations in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Tunisian Universities ........................................ 171 Sihem Hamlaoui The Role of Social Movements in the Re-Con guration of Youth Transition Regimes: The Biography of an Unemployed Graduates Activist in Morocco .................................. 185 Christoph Schwarz Family Memories and the Transmission of the Independence Struggle in South Yemen ....................................... 203 Anne-Linda Amira Augustin Aesthetic Re-Con gurings and the Politics of Change On the Re-Con gurations of Cinematic Media-Spaces: From Diaspora Film to Postdiaspora Film .............................. 217 Alena Strohmaier The Metamorphosis of the Signi cance of Death in Revolutionary Times: Mohammad Rabie’s Otared (2014) ......................... 233 Walaa Said Processing the Revolution: Exploring the Ways Tunisian Novels Re ect Political Upheavals ................................ 247 Charlotte Pardey Contents ix Transformations of the “Syrian” Literary Field Since 2011 ........... 261 Felix Lang The Year 1979 as a Turning Point in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to Critical Humanism ......................... 277 Friederike Pannewick Editors and Contributors About the Editors Rachid Ouaissa is professor of Near and Middle Eastern Politics at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). His main elds of research are political, economic and societal developments in the MENA region, the rise and transformation of Islamist movements, and rentier states and the role of middle classes. Since February 2013, he served as spokesperson for the research network “Re-Con gurations”. Since April 2020, he is also director of the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) in Tunis. Friederike Pannewick is professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) and co-director of the research eld “Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures” within EUME/Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. She is co-editor of the book series Literatures in Context: Arabic-Persian-Turkish (Reichert) and has published extensively on modern Arabic literature and theatre. Alena Strohmaier is postdoctoral researcher and project leader of the research project “‘But I’m not lming! I’m just doing a bit of video...’ Cinematic appropri- ation processes of protest videos 2009–11 in the Middle East and North Africa” (2019–2023; funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). Prior, she was the academic coordi- nator of the research network “Re-Con gurations” and managing editor of META Journal. Middle East—Topics & Arguments (both Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies). Her main areas of research are diaspora lm, media and migra- tion, digital archives, and video activism. xi
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