As part of the Granada Book Fair, on Wednesday 24 April, the Euro-Arab Foundation and the UGR Publishing House presented the book ‘Dynamics of Protests in the Arab World’.
‘Protest Dynamics in the Arab World: Challenging Authoritarian Regimes’ takes a comprehensive approach to protest as a form of unconventional political participation that emerges as a response to authoritarian regimes in the region, and which presents a series of specificities within the field of study of collective action and social movements.
Collective action and social movements have been widely studied in political science as a prism for analysing the socio-political dynamics of different democratic and authoritarian regimes, and especially transitions and democratisation processes.
For the Arab world, however, while protests as a form of political participation have been a constant since colonial times, they have not always been taken into consideration as a primary explanation for the political changes and new social dynamics that the region has experienced over the years.
The presentation of the book included speeches by Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, Deputy Secretary for Cultural and Institutional Cooperation of the Euro-Arab Foundation; Carmelo Pérez Beltrán, Director of the Arab Studies Collection and editor of the book ‘Dynamics of Protest in the Arab World’; Mª Isabel Cabrera García, Director of the UGR Publishing House; Juan Antonio Macias Amoretti, Director of the Department of Semitic Studies at the UGR and Mª Angustias Parejo Fernández, Lecturer in Political Science and Administration at the UGR.
THE AUTHORS
The book, published by the Editorial de la Universidad de Granada, has been written by:
Carmelo Pérez Beltrán, editor of this publication; Inmaculada Szmolka Vida; Laura Mijares; Ángeles Ramírez; Laurence Thieux; Alicia Olmo Gómez; Miguel Hernando de Larramendi; Mª Angustias Parejo Fernández; Isaías Barreñada Bajo; Bárbara Azaola Piazza; Ignacio Álvarez Ossorio; Leila Nachawati Rego and José Abu Tarbush.
