This seminar will discuss a new paper by Joel Beinin, “Arab Workers and the Popular Uprisings of 2011”. The paper assesses the role of workers and the working class in the Arab uprisings of 2011, drawing on political economy, social movement theory, the Dynamics of Contention, and comparisons with the Solidarnosc movement in Poland. The paper weighs the role of neoliberalism, the importance of threats (as opposed to opportunities) and the role of ‘the common enemy’ in generating mobilisation. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses in the labour movement of informal/ local versus formal / national organization.
This seminar forms part of the 'Social Movements and Popular Mobilisation in the MENA Research Theme'.
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Event Details
Speaker: Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University
Chair: Dr John Chalcraft, LSE
Discussant: Professor Gilbert Achcar
Date: Wednesday 05 November 2014
Time: 16.30-18.30
Location: Room 9.05, Tower 2, Clement's Inn, LSE
Attendance: This event is fully booked. Registration is now closed.
Speaker
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2008 he served as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East.