6. The Powers of Social Media

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Selected Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Collaborative Revolutionism 1
6. Part 1. Contexts: Roots of Discontent
7. 1. Under the Emperor’s Neoliberal Clothes! Why the International Financial Institutions Got it Wrong in Tunisia 35
8. 2. Playing the Islamic Card: The Use and Abuse of Religion in Tunisian Politics 58
9. 3. United States Policy towards Tunisia: What New Engagement after an Expendable “Friendship”? 81
10. 4. “Friends of Tunisia”: French Economic and Diplomatic Support of Tunisian Authoritarianism 103
11. Part 2. Architects: Genealogies of Dissent
12. 5. From Socio-Economic Protest to National Revolt: The Labor Origins of the Tunisian Revolution 127
13. 6. The Powers of Social Media 147
14. 7. Rethinking the Role of the Media in the Tunisian Uprising 159
15. 8. Visions of Dissent, Voices of Discontent: Postcolonial Tunisian Film and Song 181
16. Part 3. Prospects: The Postrevolutionary Moment
17. 9. From Resistance to Governance: The Category of Civility in the Political Theory of Tunisian Islamists 207
18. 10. Women’s Rights before and after the Revolution 224
19. 11. The Rise of Salafism and the Future of Democratization 252
20. 12. The Fragile Tunisian Democracy—What Prospects for the Future? 270
21. Postscript: Preserving the Exemplar 291
22. Bibliography 299
23. List of Contributors 322
24. Index 326