'Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production: Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa...

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Larbi Sadiki (Qatar University, Qatar)

'Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production

Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa

Larbi Sadiki (Qatar University, Qatar)

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Routledge
19 December 2018

Regional studies; Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Demonstrations & protest movements

Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region. Democratisation and democracy received fresh attention in the ‘Arab Spring’. Arab citizens displayed their grasp and possession of ‘democratic knowledge’ in a bottom-up groundswell of activism against the wielding of power by authoritarian regimes. In this book, the investigation into democratic knowledge revolves around the idea that good government must be in the first instance rooted in a local system of knowledge. However, no privileging of the ‘local’ is offered here at the expense of the ‘democratic’. Each chapter illustrates the context-specific experiences which provide political actors with the wherewithal in actively learning democracy. The countries examined with reference to a socially constructed democratic knowledge include Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. Critical focus on local agency in North Africa during the ‘Arab Spring’ enables a shift from democratisation as an ideology to a ‘democratic learning turn’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.

Edited by: Larbi Sadiki (Qatar University Qatar)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367023874
ISBN 10: 0367023873
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 19 December 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Discoursing ‘democratic knowledge’ & knowledge production in North Africa 2. Maghreb, European neighbour, or Barbary Coast: constructivism in North Africa 3. Towards a ‘democratic knowledge’ turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring 4. Traditions of governance in North Africa 5. The external dimension of Libya’s troubled transition: the international community and ‘democratic knowledge’ transfer 6. Democratisation as a learning process: the case of Morocco 7. Salafism, liberalism, and democratic learning in Tunisia 8. Protests, Islamism and the waning prospect of revolution in Egypt 9. Do Tunisian Secular Civil Society Organisations demonstrate a process of democratic learning?

Larbi Sadiki is Professor of Arab democratisation, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University, Qatar. He received his tertiary education at Sydney University, Australia, and obtained his PhD in political science and international affairs, with special reference to the Arab World, at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia. He began his academic career at ANU and was based at Exeter University’s political science department for 12 years before joining Qatar University in 2012. He has been a regular columnist at Al-Jazeera English and has numerous refereed articles in journals such as IJMES, Political Studies, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Third World Quarterly, Journal of North African Studies, Orient, and Democratization.

Reviews for 'Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production: Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa

[It] invites us to critically reflect on the general state of democracy in times of increasingly successful post-factual politics in well-established democracies. Jan Claudius Voelkel, Cairo University, Egypt