Renegotiating Gender and the State in Tunisia Between 2011 and 2014: Power, Positionality, and the Public Sphere - Paperback

by Anna Antonakis (Author)

Anna Antonakis' analysis of the Tunisian transformation process (2011-2014) displays how negotiations of gender initiating new political orders do not only happen in legal and political institutions but also in media representations and on a daily basis in the family and public space. While conventionalized as a "model for the region", this book outlines how the Tunisian transformation missed to address social inequalities and local marginalization as much as substantial challenges of a secular but conservative gender order inscribed in a Western hegemonic concept of modernity. She introduces the concept of "dissembled secularism" to explain major conflict lines in the public sphere and the exploitation of gender politics in a context of post-colonial dependencies.

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Anna Antonakis' analysis of the Tunisian transformation process (2011-2014) displays how negotiations of gender initiating new political orders do not only happen in legal and political institutions but also in media representations and on a daily basis in the family and public space. While conventionalized as a "model for the region", this book outlines how the Tunisian transformation missed to address social inequalities and local marginalization as much as substantial challenges of a secular but conservative gender order inscribed in a Western hegemonic concept of modernity. She introduces the concept of "dissembled secularism" to explain major conflict lines in the public sphere and the exploitation of gender politics in a context of post-colonial dependencies.
Contents

• Exploitation and instrumentalization of women's rights
• Combining public sphere and intersectional theory
• Post-colonial regimes in Tunisia
• Intersectional analysis of transformation, including political institutions, media and associations after the uprisings of 2011

• Researchers and students in political science with a special interest in political communication, intersectional approaches and the study of societies in transformation
• Scholars, activists and diplomats interested in the "Arab Spring" and North Africa

Author Biography

Dr. Anna Antonakis is a researcher and consultant in the field of Gender, Media and Security. She investigated the Tunisian transformation process from 2013-2016 as a doctoral fellow at the SWP.