Two Mediterranean Worlds
Diverging Paths of Globalization and Autonomy
Käthe Roth translator William D Coleman editor Yassine Essid editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
Published:1st Jan '13
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By exploring variations in individual and collective autonomy in the northern and southern Mediterranean, this volume uncovers the underlying conditions that gave birth to the Arab Spring.
The Mediterranean, a region of uneven globalization, offers clues to understanding the future of democracy in North Africa and the Near East.
Globalization includes complex processes, easy to identify but difficult to explain. Why, for instance, are globalizing processes so unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect does this uneven distribution have on the everyday lives of ordinary people?
The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the people of the north shore, who are engaged with Europe and modernized, and their poorer neighbours to the south, who struggle daily to atain the same standards of living and modes of governance as their more Westernized neighbours. In these two regions’ divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures lead to explanations not only for uneven globalization but also for the wave of demonstrations for political and cultural autonomy that sparked the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Near East.
ISBN: 9780774823197
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 640g
440 pages