CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Mejdi, Ihsan |
|---|---|
| Title | "The Oasis is ours": What did the 2011 Tunisian Revolution Mean at the Margins? Dates, Land, and the State in Jemna |
| Summary | The thesis revisits the 2011 Tunisian revolution to understand the event from the view point of the marginalized.Through an ethnographic research conducted in Jemna, a remote village in southern Tunisia, I analyze an act of reclaiming an oasis during the 2011 revolution and the meaningfulness of the act to the locals. The research situates the act of the villagers in a broader historical context and engages with questions of the history of land relations, marginalization, subalternity and center-periphery relations. Analyzing the Tunisian revolution at the margins reveals that through the act of reclaiming an oasis during revolutionary times,cultivating it collectively, and managing its revenues locally, the marginalized restore historical, social, and political agency. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem, Kumar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/mejdi_ihsan.pdf |
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