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Journal Article
When citizens look backwards: retrospective understandings of grievance in post-revolutionary societies
2024
Overview
How do citizens understand the drivers of revolutionary mobilization? Studies of revolution and contentious politics often focus on expressed grievances at the moment of protest in order to theorize the causes of mobilization. Yet citizens’ retrospective understandings of their country’s revolution may hold important implications for post-revolutionary politics. We argue that citizens in the aftermath of revolution may well hold divergent views about the main drivers of mass mobilization, and that these divergent views often map on to important social and political cleavages. Using an original nationally representative survey conducted in 2017, we analyze retrospective accounts of the socio-economic grievances underpinning the 2010/2011 Tunisian revolution, focusing on which socio-economic grievances Tunisians perceived as most important in driving revolutionary protests. We find the most significant variation at the regional level. We draw on existing scholarship on regional disparities to contextualize these findings. In interior governorates, where spontaneous anti-regime mobilization began in December 2010, citizens overwhelmingly identified unemployment as the key revolutionary grievance. In the capital and coastal regions, where mass protests emerged later in the revolutionary cycle and included a broader range of formal civil society actors, including powerful labor syndicates, citizens identified a wider array of grievances, including inadequate wages and lack of adequate access to healthcare. Beyond revolutionary contention, this article’s focus on retrospective grievances can serve to illuminate broader dynamics of contentious politics, particularly how important episodes of contentious politics are conceived years after they took place and how those conceptions might differ along politically or geographically salient cleavages in society.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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