Spaces of participation : dynamics of social and political change in the Arab world / edited by Randa Aboubakr, Sarah Jurkiewicz, Hicham Ait-Mansour, and Ulrike Freitag.

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Protests as a Space for Contentious Politics and Political Learning among Youth in Morocco : The Case of Mohamed V Avenue in Rabat / Hicham Ait-Mansour -- The Concept of Participation in Cairo's Unplanned Areas / Azzurra Sarnataro -- Citizen Collectives in Post-2011 Egypt : Contestation Mechanisms / Mona Khalil -- Interstitial Spaces and Controlled Participation : The Youth Center of Hay Mohammadi during the Years of Lead in Morocco / Yasmine Berriane -- Participation in Spaces of Exile : The Making of Change in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank / Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyżanowska -- The Challenge of Reconstructing Public Space : The Case of Mohamed V Avenue / Mokhtar El Harras and Youness Benmouro -- The Muslim Brotherhood and the Creation of Spectacles in Nasr City / Mai Ayyad -- Topographies of the Discourse of Resistance in the Public Sphere : A Case Study of the Activists of the February 20 Movement / Mouloud Amghar -- Mock Translation as Sociopolitical Commentary in the Egyptian Digital Sphere / Randa Aboubakr -- Spaces of Culture in Casablanca : Isles of Creativity in an Often-hostile Ocean / Fadma Ait Mous -- Cultural Heterotopias and the Making of the Political / Yazid Anani -- Genius Loci : The Spirit of the Place / Renad Shqeirat -- Culturepreneurship and Reclaiming Urban Space in Kuwait City / Sarah Jurkiewicz

"Where do people meet, form relations of trust, and begin debating social and political issues? Where do social movements start? In this fascinating collection, scholars and activists from a wealth of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, anthropology, history, and political science, take a fresh look at these questions and the factors leading to political and social change in the Arab world from a spatial perspective. Based on original field work in Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, and Palestine, Spaces of Participation connects and reconnects social, cultural, and political participation with urban space. It explores timely themes such as formal and informal spaces of participation, alternative spaces of cultural production, space reclamation, and cultural activism, and the reconfiguring of space through different types of contestation. It also covers a range of spaces that include sports clubs, arts centers, and sites of protest and resistance, as well as virtual spaces such as social media platforms, in the process of examining the relationships and tensions between physical and virtual space"--

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