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The Arab Uprisings: Class Formation & Dynamics

THE ARAB UPRISINGS: CLASS FORMATION AND CLASS DYNAMICS

15-16 June 2015
SOAS, University of London
London, UK
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On 15 and 16 June 2015, academics from the Development Studies department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) along with the Arab Studies Institute convened a workshop entitled The Arab Uprisings: Class Formation and Class Dynamics. The workshop was bilingual (Arabic and English) and attended by over 30 prominent scholars from the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In lively discussion across two days, paper presentations examined questions such as: to what extent is ‘class’ a useful analytical framework for approaching the ongoing upheaval in the region? What are the specificities of such a class analysis for the Arab world? What are the underlying dynamics characterising the restructuring of labor-capital-state relations since the period of neoliberal reform began in the 1980s? How are questions suchas labour migration, gendered divisions of labour, forms of free/unfree labour, and the massive expansion of informal work best integrated into class analyses of
the region? How have regional structures of capital accumulation changed over the last decade and what does this imply for the nature of capitalism in the Arab world? The workshop was co funded and co-sponsored by ASI as part of the Political Economy Project, and it is planned to produce written and audio material arising from the event in future publications.

More Political Economy Project Workshops
  • ​​Development and the Uprisings
  • The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonizations
  • Tunisia: Labor and Development in Times of Transition
  • ​​​Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey
  • Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
  • New Directions in Political Economy

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Highlights

Hear Workshop Audio!
Organizers
Adam Hanieh
Bassam Haddad
​Gilbert Achcar​

Papers and Presentations

Gilbert Achcar, Adam Hanieh, Salwa Ismail
Approaching Class and Class Formation in the Region
Said Al-Hashmi, Omar Al-Shehabi, Laleh Khalili
The Gulf Cooperation Council
Helen Lackner
Yemen
Wa’el Gamal, Rabab El Mahdi, Maha Abdelrahman
Egypt
Sami Zemni, Hela Yousfi, Habib Ayeb
Tunisia

Joseph Daher, Bassam Haddad
Syria
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  • FAMA
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    • MESPI
    • Knowledge Production Project >
      • ME-KP
    • Political Economy Project >
      • Development and the Uprisings
      • Class Formations and Dynamics
      • The Palestinian Economy: Fragmentation and Colonization
      • Tunisia: A Political Economy in Transition
      • Migrant States, Mobile Economies: Rethinking the Political in Contemporary Turkey
      • Political Economy of the Middle East: Continuities & Discontinuities in Teaching & Research
      • 2016 Political Economy Institute
    • The Lebanon Project >
      • Research Working Group: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958 >
        • Inaugural Workshop: State-Building, Public Institutions, & Social Mobilization in Lebanon, 1943-1958
      • Lebanon Dissertation Summer Institute
    • The Palestine Project >
      • Gaza in Context Film
      • Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice in Palestine
      • Audio Content
    • The Civil Society Project >
      • Exploring an Agenda on Active Citizenship
      • NGOs in the Arab World Post-Arab Uprisings
      • Academia & Social Justice
    • Middle East Media Project >
      • Journalism Against the Grain
    • The Egypt Project >
      • Towards a Cultural Cartography
      • After Tahrir
      • Audio Content
    • Refugees and Migrants Project >
      • Refugees in Lebanon
      • Study Week Beirut
    • Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarities Project
  • Initiatives
    • Political Islam, ISIS, and Sectarianism >
      • Understanding the ISIS Phenomenon
      • Sectarianism, Identity and Conflict in Islamic Contexts
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