Two Mediterranean Worlds

Diverging Paths of Globalization and Autonomy

Edited by Yassine Essid & William D. Coleman
Translated by Käthe Roth
Categories: Political Science, International Political Science, Religious Studies, International Relations, Public & Social Policy, Social Sciences, Sociology
Series: Globalization and Autonomy
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774823180, 440 pages, March 2012
Paperback : 9780774823197, 440 pages, January 2013
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774823203, 440 pages, April 2012
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Table of contents

Preface to Series / Preface to the English Edition

Introduction / Yassine Essid and William D. Coleman

Part 1: Adapting and Integrating -- Governing in Globalization

1 Globalization, Governance, and Autonomy / Abdeljabbar Bsaies

2 Globalization, Autonomy, and the Euro-Mediterranean Space: The Issues of Regional Cooperation and the Challenges of Sovereignty / Faika Charfi and Sameh Zouari

Part 2: Globalization in the Great Texts

3 ‘Asabiyya, Market, and Society: The Contemporary Relevance of Ibn Khaldun’s Vision of Social Change / Olivia Orozco de la Torre

4 Transmission of Texts and Globalization of Knowledge: Inter-religious Dialogue in Castile in the Fifteenth Century / Sonia Fellous

Part 3: Religions and Globalization

5 Islam: Globalization, Autonomy, and Internationality / Mohamed Yassine Essid

6 Muslim Women in the Mediterranean Region: Discriminatory Autonomy / Latifa Lakhdhar

Part 4: Cultural Autonomy -- Music and Food

7 Local Tunisian Music and Globalization: Between Musical Autonomy and Commercial Autonomy / Myriem Lakhoua

8 Globalization and Food Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Amado A. Millán Fuertes

9 The Fuentes de Ebro Sweet Onion: Autonomy through Globalization / Rulof Kerkhoff

10 Globalization of Food Practices in Amman / Almudena Hasan Bosque

11 Food Globalization and Autonomy Strategies: The Case of Meat in Tunisia / Paula Durán Monfort

Part 5: Cultural Autonomy -- Languages and Education

12 Globalized Literature and Autonomy: The Arabic Novel in the West / François Zabbal

13 The Use of English in North Africa: From Globalization to Autonomy / Mongi Bahloul

14 Globalization, Autonomy, and Higher Education: The French and Tunisian Cases / Houda Ben Hassen

Part 6: Globalization and Autonomy -- The Economic Question

15 The Economics of Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Lotfi Bouzaïane

16 Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region: The Roles of the Main Stakeholders / Rim Ben Ayed Mouelhi

17 The Challenge of Financial Globalization in Countries South of the Mediterranean Basin / Samouel Béji

18 Industrial Policy in the Mediterranean Region and Capacities for Autonomy in a Context of Globalization / Jihen Malek

19 The South Mediterranean Countries and Economic Opening: The State of Affairs / Nizard Jouini

20 The Mediterranean and Outsourcing / Fatma Sarraj

Epilogue

21 Globalization and Autonomy: The Individual in the Maghreb / Interview with Dr. Hashmi Dhaoui

Notes; Works Cited; Index

By exploring variations in individual and collective autonomy in the northern and southern Mediterranean, this volume uncovers the underlying conditions that gave birth to the Arab Spring.

Description

Why are globalizing processes unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect do these disparities have on the lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the wealthier nations of the north shore and their poorer neighbours to the south. The divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures of these two regions lead to explanations not only for uneven globalization but also for the wave of demonstrations that have sparked unrest in North Africa and the Near East.