Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Re-Configurations as Dynamic Processes of Change -- References -- Political Re-Configurings and Transregional Ties -- Spatializing Memory and Justice in Transformation Processes -- Memory and Justice from National to Global and Back to Local -- Spatializing the Entanglement of Local and Global2 -- Conclusions -- References -- Tunisia's Re-Configurations and Transitional Justice in Process: How Planned Processes of Social and Political Change Interplay with Unplanned Political Dynamics -- Introduction -- Background: What Past is Tunisia's Transitional Justice Process Confronting? -- Introducing the "Process Gap" in Transitional Justice and a Framework for Analysis -- Tunisia's Transitional Justice in Process: Empirical Illustration -- Initiating Transitional Justice -- Designing Transitional Justice -- Performing Transitional Justice -- Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Algeria: Between Transformation and Re-Configuration -- The Nature of the State in Algeria -- Hirak: A New Kind of Protest Movement -- References -- The International and the Construction of Opposition in Iran -- Opposition in Autocracies -- The International and the Construction of Political Opposition -- The International as a "Generalized Standpoint" and Provider of Norms -- The International as a Space of Belonging -- The International as a Comparative Horizon -- Summary -- References -- Tangier's Current Re-Configurations from a Multi-Scale Spatial Perspective: Emerging Transregional Ties and Local Repercussions -- Introduction: Local and (Trans-)Regional Re-Configurations -- Contemporary Mega-Projects Re-Configuring Tangier -- Intervening Actors and Institutions -- Integrating Policies, Programs, and Infrastructure Networks -- Emerging Connections, Entanglements, and Flows.

Strengthened Competition and Strategic Positioning -- Increasing Fragmentation, Territorialization, and Other Problems -- Conclusion: Re-Configurations of an Emerging "Secondary City" with Transregional Links, Embedded in Multiple Scales -- References -- 1968 and the "Long 1960s": A Transregional Perspective -- Historicizing the 1960s -- Deciphering the "Long 1960s" and 1968 -- Trans-MENA in Southeast Asia-The "other 1960s"? -- Re-Configurations -- References -- Social Re-Configurings and Generational Challenges -- The Survival of the Kurdish Chicken: Uneven Development and Nationalist Discourse in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq -- Research Question and Positionality -- The Chicken on the Roof -- Nationalism, Uneven Development, and Neoliberalism -- Change, Continuity, and the Chicken -- The (A-)Political at the End -- References -- The Infantilization of the Colonized: Medical and Psychiatric Descriptions of Drinking Habits in the Colonial Maghreb -- Levels of Infantilization -- Drinking Incorrectly -- Immature Bodies -- Lessons on Drinking -- Conclusion -- References -- National Memory in the Making: Gendered Re-Configurations of Martyrdom in Post-revolutionary Tunisia -- Arab Masculinities in Question -- Fieldwork: Investigating a Polarized Context -- The Early Days of the Revolution: The Impulsive Designation of "Martyrs" -- A Strategic Cause on the Post-Revolutionary Stage -- Suspicious Masculinities: In Search of the "Fake" Martyrs of the Revolution -- Subaltern Voices and Alternative Narratives -- "Martyrs of the Nation": The Consecration of Militarized Masculinities -- Conclusion -- References -- Teachers' Resistance to Educational Change and Innovations in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Tunisian Universities -- Materials and Methods -- Populations -- Results and Discussion -- Extrinsic Barriers -- Intrinsic Barriers.

Implementation Strategy -- Conclusion -- References -- The Role of Social Movements in the Re-Configuration of Youth Transition Regimes: The Biography of an Unemployed Graduates Activist in Morocco -- Introduction -- Life-Courses in Youth Transition Regimes -- Morocco: The Unemployed Graduates Movement and Its Historical Context -- A Precarious Cycle of Lifelong Learning -- Protest as Part of the Transition -- The "Arab Spring" as a Rupture: Ushering in the End of the Movement? -- Conclusion -- References -- Family Memories and the Transmission of the Independence Struggle in South Yemen -- Introduction -- The Role of Family Memories in Contexts of Defeats -- The Transmission of Independence in Families -- Conclusion -- References -- Aesthetic Re-Configurings and the Politics of Change -- On the Re-Configurations of Cinematic Media-Spaces: From Diaspora Film to Postdiaspora Film -- Introduction1: "Diaspora is Highly Contemporary" -- From Exile to Diaspora -- Beyond Hybridity -- Conclusion: "Postdiaspora is an Emancipatory Move" -- References -- The Metamorphosis of the Significance of Death in Revolutionary Times: Mohammad Rabie's Otared (2014) -- Introduction -- Violent Death: Between the Derealization of the Living and the Martyrization of the Dead -- Death and Fear in Post-2011 Dystopias: The Example of Mohammad Rabie's Otared -- 2011: Hope as the Grim Reaper -- "2025": "Marters of the Reverlooshun!" -- Conclusion -- References -- Processing the Revolution: Exploring the Ways Tunisian Novels Reflect Political Upheavals -- Introduction -- Why Analyze Literature? -- Literary Prizes and Their Influence: The Prix Litt�eraires Comar d'Or -- Individual Impressions of Socio-Political Change -- Family Drama Beats Revolutionary References -- Political Upheavals and the Personal Sphere -- Conclusion -- References.

Transformations of the "Syrian" Literary Field Since 2011 -- The Field -- Trends of Internationalization -- Translations -- Challenges to the Hierarchies of the Field -- Arab Media -- Conclusion -- References -- The Year 1979 as a Turning Point in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to Critical Humanism -- Politicization and Commitment in the Wake of 1967 -- Between Commitment and Despair -- From Didactic Theatre to Psychological Studies -- References.

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