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United Discourse,divided Struggles

其他書名	Hegemonic Contraction and Social Movements in Jordan
出版	Wayne State University, 2021
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=raftzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Between 2011 and 2013, thousands of protests, marches, and strikes swept across the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in a mass rebuke of decades of economic deprivation and stalled democratic reforms. In addition to their scale, what made these mobilizations unprecedented was the participation of two new social movements: a new independent labor movement and the 0́−Hirak.0́+ The Hirak (or 0́−movement0́+) was comprised of dozens of Jordanian tribal youth groups drawn from rural communities which had, until recently, been among the most steadfast supporters of the monarchy. Both labor0́4organizing outside the state-controlled unions0́4and Hirak activists shared a similar discourse of economic rights and social justice. Nevertheless, activists failed to form a broadly-based national movement and were divided and demobilized by 2013. Consequently, the monarchy survived the tumult of the 0́−Arab Uprising,0́+ which toppled regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere. This dramatic turn of events informs the central empirical puzzle of this dissertation: Why were activists in Jordan, despite sharing many of the same motivations and demands, unable to coalesce around a single, national movement capable of challenging the monarchy's grip on power?Drawing on in-depth interviews with key activists, this dissertation offers an answer to this question by tracing how neoliberal reforms eroded the Jordanian regime0́9s hegemony, creating the opportunity for new cross-movement solidarities to emerge. Hegemony in this sense refers to the economic, institutional, and ideological mechanisms and processes by which ruling coalitions (re)produce popular consent to the prevailing order. In tracing the erosion of hegemony, this study emphasizes the importance of structural factors over primarily institutional and cultural explanations of why the Arab Uprisings 0́−missed0́+ Jordan, while also explicating precisely how and why structural factors were relevant.