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The Global Impact of the Arab Spring and the Revolutionary City: Contextualizing the Israeli Protests

Type: 
Seminar
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Speaker: 
Daniel Monterescu
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
609
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

INVITATION TO
UNIVERSITY-WIDE  MIDDLE EAST SEMINAR

 co-organized by

History Department, Medieval Studies Department, Department of Sociology and  Social Anthropology, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies and Religious Studies Program

The Global Impact of the Arab Spring and the Revolutionary City: Contextualizing the Israeli Protests    

DANIEL MONTERESCU   

Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

 One of the striking features of the “Arab Spring” is its cascading effect on social movements worldwide. The rapid diffusion and mimetic circulation of its core revolutionary principles to markedly different political contexts throughout the Middle East, Europe and the US pose a conceptual challenge for the social sciences. Another distinguishing feature of the Arab revolts is the central role cities play in both enabling mobilization and repressing protests. This talk seeks to conceptualize the emergence of a global political subjectivity and its embedded urbanity as part of the making of the new rebellious city. The emergence and subsequent dissolution of large-scale protests for “social justice” in Israeli cities serve as a case study for the translocal connectivity between Arab and non-Arab societies. 

    Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 17:30

 Faculty Tower,  609

 

All are welcome