A newsletter by Lebanon Support

Lebanon Support is a multidisciplinary space creating synergies and bridging between the scientific, practitioner, and policy spheres. Lebanon Support aims to foster social change through innovative uses of social science, digital technologies, and publication and exchange of knowledge.   

Lebanon Support has recently published new mappings of collective actions in Jordan and Tunisia, in addition to the mapping on Lebanon that had started in 2017. 

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What mobilises Tunisia?

Mapping | Tunisia

"Research on social mobilisations in the MENA region has particularly multiplied since the unfolding of the Arab uprisings [in 2011] across several countries up until today. Several in-depth single or comparative case-studies were advanced in a bid to explain these [...] dynamics [...] in resilient Arab regimes. However, no inclusive collective tracking of the continuous evolving collective actions was produced. This is where the mapping tool we have produced fills this important gap for academics and scholars working on such mobilisations in the region. Having worked on contentious activism in Lebanon and Tunisia for the past years, the mapping tool captures the sometimes de-emphasised dynamics and evolving collective actions in these countries. The produced data (trends) on Tunisia in 2021 make a point in that. The country has been witnessing an increasing wave of decentralized contentious actions over the past few months by collective and informal groups in several Tunisian cities primarily guided by a sense of injustice/perceived injustice."

Dr Stephanie Daher   

Dr Daher is a researcher in Contentious Politics - MENA at Lebanon Support. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations. More here.   

View the Tunisia mapping and interactive charts here

What mobilises Jordan?

Mapping | Jordan

''In the past five years Jordan has been witnessing an important increase of socio-economic unrest. Albeit some mobilizations such as the teachers’ strike of 2019 have been able to reach a wide audience, most of the protest cycles and events have remained scholarly invisible. Through our interactive mapping of collective actions in Jordan, we aim at offering quantitative evidence as well as qualitative analysis to further the understanding of the multifaceted forms and trajectories of collective action [actors] as they re-draw [...] the contentious fault-lines of the Kingdom.''

Dr Rossana Tufaro  

Dr Tufaro is a researcher in Contentious Politics - MENA at Lebanon Support. She has a PhD in Studies on Africa and Asia, and she specialised in the social and political history of contemporary Lebanon. More here.

View the Jordan mapping and interactive charts here

Qualitative analysis will be published soon to complement these quantitative mappings.

For the mapping on Lebanon click here