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Rethinking Civil Society in Transition: International Donors, Associations and Politics in Tunisia book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Civil Society in Transition International Donors, Associations and Politics in Tunisia

By Ester Sigillò Copyright 2023
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

This book illustrates the results of ethnographical research designed to shed light on the notion of civil society in a context characterized by the transformation of power relations. Such transformation is given by shifting resources, renewed local and international opportunities, and a general reframing of goals and objectives. The academic literature has usually relied on a substantialist... Read more
List of abbreviations, List of illustrations, Preface,Introduction: leveling the playing field, 1. Unpacking the Notion of Civil Society, 2. Studying Civil Society in Transition Through a (Strategic) Relational Approach, 3. Mobilizing for Development in Post-authoritarian Tunisia, 4. Research Design and Methods: The Challenges of Grounded Theory, 5. Structure of the Book, Part I CIVIL SOCIETY IN TRANSITION: RECASTING THE ARENA OF POWER RELATIONS, Chapter 1: State-society relations before and after the Revolution, Chapter 2: Civil society and politics after 2011, Chapter 3: From the global to the local: the tale of civil society promotion, Part II: ASSOCIATIONS AS PLAYERS AND ARENAS, Chapter 4: Associations as players, Chapter 5: Civil society as an arena: networking strategies beyond hegemonic actors, Conclusion: On associations' permeability: doing politics through other means? Postfaction, Appendix, References.

Biography

Ester Sigillò is a Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence). During her doctoral activities, she served as visiting fellow at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis and as a research fellow at the ERC-funded project TARICA. After her doctoral studies, she served as a Max Weber Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (Florence). From 2020 to 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher under the framework of the ERC-funded project BIT-ACT at the University of Bologna. Her research interests include democratization, dynamics of contention, and Islamic activism in the Maghreb. Among her most recent publications: “Understanding the transformation of Political Islam beyond party politics: the case of Tunisia” in Third World Quarterly, “Digital media, diasporic groups, and the transnational dimension of anti-regime movements: the case of Hirak in Algeria” in Review of Communication (co-authored), “The Evolution of Tunisian Salaf.ism after the Revolution: From La Maddhabiyya to Salaf.iMalikism” in International Journal of Middle East Studies (co-authored). Ester is also Adjunct-Faculty at Georgetown University (Florence Campus), where she teaches ‘Comparative Political Systems in the Mediterranean World.’

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