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Title
Battlefields of the Republic - the struggle for public space in Tunisia |
Full text
http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21670/1/Tripp_Battlefields%20of%20the%20Republic_2015_author%202.pdf |
Date
2014 |
Author(s)
Tripp, Charles |
Abstract
This paper argues that the Tunisian revolutionary moment of 2011 and its aftermath have opened up spaces that are capable of providing a framework for the agonistic politics associated with democratic possibility. Insurgent public space, an emerging plural public, as well as adversarial contests over the constitution of the republic display features that may help to build 'conflictual consensus' as part of a democratic future. These possibilities are constantly being re-enacted by Tunisians whose disagreements are real enough, but whose struggles are also establishing the boundaries of an emerging political field, loosely thought of as the 'Tunisian Republic'. This is a bold and challenging undertaking, with potentially revolutionary implications, but it is also a precarious enterprise, given the forces that may yet threaten to encroach on public space and on the rights of the citizen. |
Subject(s)
Centre for Comparative Political Thought |
Publisher
LSE Middle East Centre |
Relation
http://www.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/publications/Paper-Series/2015/BattlefieldsofRepublic.aspx; http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21670/ |
Type of publication
Monographs; NonPeerReviewed |
Format
text |
Identifier
Tripp, Charles (2014) Battlefields of the Republic - the struggle for public space in Tunisia. London: LSE Middle East Centre. |
Repository
London - SOAS, University of London
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