Socioeconomic Protests in MENA and Latin America: Egypt and Tunisia in Interregional Comparison

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This edited volume presents a detailed account of the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, it analyses what has happened to the socioeconomic grievances that played a key role in the mass mobilizations of 2010 and 2011. The book is based on an original data set of socioeconomic protests in the two countries and on in-depth case studies that cover the two most important types of socioeconomic contention: labor protests and protests by socioeconomically disadvantaged people outside the formal economy. Drawing on a systematic review of comparative research on Latin America, the authors argue that the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in contemporary Egypt and Tunisia reflect a deep-seated crisis of popular sector incorporation. This work promises to enrich the scholarly and the political debates on Egypt and Tunisia, the MENA region and on contentious politics in times of political change. Chapter 10 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction: Socioeconomic Protests in Times of Political Change—Studying Egypt and Tunisia from a Comparative Perspective (Irene Weipert-Fenner, Jonas Wolff)....Pages 1-40 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 Beyond Regime Change: The State and the Crisis of Governance in Post-2011 Egypt and Tunisia (Amr Adly, Hamza Meddeb)....Pages 43-70 Socioeconomic Contention in Post-2011 Egypt and Tunisia: A Comparison (Prisca Jöst, Jan-Philipp Vatthauer)....Pages 71-103 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 Organized Labor and Political Change in Latin America: An Overview (Jonas Wolff)....Pages 107-121 Proposals, Intermediation, and Pressure: The Three Roles of the UGTT in Tunisia’s Post-revolutionary Constitutional Process (Bassem Karray)....Pages 123-144 From the Dream of Change to the Nightmare of Structural Weakness: The Trajectory of Egypt’s Independent Trade Union Movement After 2011 (Nadine Abdalla)....Pages 145-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Contention by Marginalized Groups and Political Change in Latin America: An Overview (Jonas Wolff)....Pages 171-193 Unemployed Protests in Tunisia: Between Grassroots Activism and Formal Organization (Samiha Hamdi, Irene Weipert-Fenner)....Pages 195-219 Mobilized Along the Margins: Survival Strategies of Tuktuk Drivers in Egypt (Nayera Abdelrahman Soliman)....Pages 221-248 Front Matter ....Pages 249-249 From North Africa to Latin America and Back: Comparative Findings and Theoretical Reflections (Irene Weipert-Fenner, Jonas Wolff)....Pages 251-274