Peripheral resistance: geographies of occupation and policing in Tunisia.

This article sets out to study Tunisian protest movements and state responses by focusing on continuities in protest and policing rather than radical breaks like the 1956 independence, the 2010–2011 revolution, or more recently, Kais Saied's July 25 self-coup. Through ethnographic fieldwork among ac...

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Publicado en:Journal of North African Studies Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 462 - 498
Autores principales: Plaschke, Jakob, Jebnoun, Noureddine
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2025
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        Tunisia
        Police
        Racialization
        Socioeconomics
        Ethnology
        Poor people
        Power (Social sciences)
        Arab Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012
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          Power (Social sciences)
          Tunisia
          Police Protection
          Municipal police services
          Federal police services
          Provincial police services
          Arab Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012
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        Internal occupation
        peripheral marginalisation
        policing
        racialisation
        state violence
        state-capitalist class nexus
        Internal occupation
        peripheral marginalisation
        policing
        racialisation
        state violence
        state-capitalist class nexus
      ab: This article sets out to study Tunisian protest movements and state responses by focusing on continuities in protest and policing rather than radical breaks like the 1956 independence, the 2010–2011 revolution, or more recently, Kais Saied's July 25 self-coup. Through ethnographic fieldwork among activists in Tunis, residents of its popular neighbourhoods and with the El-Kamour movement of the southern region of Tataouine, the article develops three arguments and theoretical tools: firstly, it argues that residents of Tunis' popular neighbourhoods and Tunisia's inland and southern regions are racialized through consistent securitisation at the hands of urban elites as they migrated to the cities to establish what would become peripheral popular neighbourhoods. Secondly, it develops and applies a lens of internal occupation to analyze policing of these racialized populations. Through a grounded theory-approach, it articulates intimately felt indignity and humiliation in the context of an outsider-insider policing dynamic. Thirdly, it argues that racialisation is perpetuated by a state-capitalist class nexus consisting of economic benefactors of the reserve army of labour and natural resource extraction. Security forces violently enforce this socio-economic order. Lastly, it suggests that internal occupation is a useful theoretical lens through which to analyze policing of marginalised populations in general.
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