Month: May 2021

[English below]

Moutaa Amine El Waer, doctorant en sociologie  au Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (Université de Montréal, UDeM).

“Devenir des étudiants militants sous Ben Ali. Socialisation politique au sein de l’Union Générale des Etudiants de Tunisie (UGET)”

Moutaa AMINE EL WAER travaille sur le mouvement étudiant et les mouvements politiques et sociaux des jeunes en Tunisie. Cette session sera l’occasion d’analyser des trajectoires de militant-e-s durant la période autoritaire, en revenant sur certaines dimensions de son mémoire de master, intitulé : “Production et reproduction d’un militantisme de gauche au sein d’un syndicat étudiant dans la dernière décennie de règne de Ben Ali”, mémoire de master en science politique sous la direction de Choukri Hmed, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris.

Titulaire d’un master en sciences politiques (2017) de l’université Paris Dauphine,  Moutaa Amine El Waer entame en septembre 2018 des études doctorales en sociologie à l’Université de Montréal (UdeM)

La séance, qui sera transmise via Zoom, se déroulera en français.

Merci de vous inscrire auprès de dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

Nous nous réjouissons de votre participation !

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Moutaa Amine El Waer, PhD candidate in sociology at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (Université de Montréal).

“Becoming student activists under Ben Ali. Political socialisation within the General Union of Students of Tunisia (UGET)”.

Moutaa AMINE EL WAER works on the student movement and the political and social movements of young people in Tunisia. This session will be an opportunity to analyse the trajectories of activists during the authoritarian period, by returning to certain dimensions of his master’s thesis, entitled: “Production et reproduction d’un militantisme de gauche au sein d’un syndicat étudiant dans la dernière décennie de règne de Ben Ali” (Production and reproduction of a left-wing activism within a student union in the last decade of Ben Ali’s reign), master’s thesis in political science under the direction of Choukri Hmed, University of Paris Dauphine, Paris.

Holder of a master’s degree in political science (2017) from the University of Paris Dauphine, Moutaa Amine El Waer began his doctoral studies in sociology at the University of Montreal (UdeM) in September 2018

The session, which will be transmitted via Zoom, will be held in French.

Please register at dream@cmb.hu-berlin.de.

We look forward to your participation!

By Vincent Bonnecase (CNRS) and Leyla Dakhli (Principal Investigator, ERC DREAM)

This article, initially published on the Cambridge Core blog, accompanies the IRSH (International Review of Social History) Special Issue When ‘Adjusted’ People Rebel: Economic Liberalization and Social revolts in Africa and the Middle East (1980s to the Present Day).

Since the 1970s, all countries in the world have, in one way or another, been subjected to fiscal austerity policies, coupled with a dramatic decline in social spending, a steep rise in price and trade liberalisation, and a wide spread of the entrepreneurial model and of prioritizing financial economic concerns in the private and public spheres. These developments, which were mostly accompanied by an assumed conversion to neo-liberalism, have unfolded in very different ways in different parts of the world. In the industrialised countries of Europe and North America, these processes were implemented largely by democratically elected governments –­ even if they were strongly backed by and linked to the interests of the national business community – and thus took on a strongly domestic dimension. The most striking examples are the Reagan administrations in the United States and the Thatcher government in the United Kingdom, both of which led their countries into profound and long-lasting political, economic and social transformations, often summarized as the end of the welfare state. But in the so-called “developing” countries, the conversion to neo-liberalism has taken on a strong exogenous dimension, as it has been carried out at the request of the international financial institutions: in response to the high level of national debt and the slow growth of national economies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have drawn up structural adjustment plans with the intention of restoring public finances, stimulating trade and putting these countries back on the road to economic development.

To read more, see here

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