Young Generation Awakening
Economics, Society, and Policy on the Eve of the Arab Spring
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 August 2016
- ISBN 9780190224615
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 236x157x22 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011-2012 across the Middle East have been associated with the underlying grievances of young people. This volume examines the prevailing socioeconomic conditions of youth the eve of the uprisings and assess their role in fomenting the youth-led protests.
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The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism. Specifically, the Arab Spring uprisings debunked the prevailing notion that youth were disengaged from political life by their economic exclusion and tight regime control of their mobilization. Indeed, the one consistent feature across the uprisings, whether peaceful or violent, was the key role played by young people.
What has remained unclear is why youth became the vanguards of the Arab Spring protests and why they have not played a more prominent role in the transitions that followed. To address these questions, the authors in this volume use updated data sets on demography, employment, education, inequality, social media and public sentiment to examine the underlying socioeconomic conditions of young people in the Middle East at the time of the uprisings and offer a mosaic of analytical explanations linking those conditions from 2009-2011 to the revolts of 2010-2012.
The findings in the volume confirm the inadequacy of traditional narrow explanations rooted in demographic profiles, economic grievances or political exclusion in accounting for the complex socioeconomic dynamics facing youth and societies at large in the Middle East in the period leading up to the Arab Spring. The contributors emphasize the fundamental institutional rigidities in the region's policy space and evaluate potential approaches to policy reform that can promote youth inclusion and help transform the region's political economies in the post Arab Spring environment of persistent economic volatility, social unrest and political instability.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Edward A. Sayre and Tarik M. Yousef
1. Demographic Transitions across the Middle East and North Africa
David Beck and Paul Dyer
2. Schooling and Learning in the Middle East and North Africa: The Roles of the Family and the State
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
3. Arab Youth Employment in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis
Mona Said
4. The Effects of Education and Marriage on Labor Force Participation of Women in the Middle East and North Africa
Edward Sayre and Rana Hendy
5. Gulf Youth and the Labor Market
Paul Dyer and Samer Kherfi
6. The Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Political Protest: Evidence from the Tunisian Revolution
Anita Breuer
7. The Political Effects of Changing Public Opinion In Egypt: A Story of Revolution
Ishac Diwan
8. Days of Rage and Silence: Explaining Political Action by Arab Youth
Raj Desai, Anders Olofsgard, and Tarik Yousef
9. A Generation without Work Contracts: Youth Informality in Egypt
Ghada Barsoum
10. Does Labor Law Reform Offer an Opportunity for Reducing Arab Youth Unemployment?
Jeff Nugent
11. Exploring the Impact of Reforms to the Moroccan Vocational Education System: A Policy Analysis
Brahim Boubarbat and Daniel Egel
12. After the Arab Spring: Reform, Innovation and the Future of Youth Employment
Tarik Yousef and Edward Sayre
