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dc.contributor.authorGani, Jasmine K.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-11T10:30:10Z
dc.date.available2022-01-11T10:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-10
dc.identifier276446466
dc.identifier74ccc117-a15d-4628-ae16-29deca96c1fc
dc.identifier85140204839
dc.identifier.citationGani , J K 2022 , ' From discourse to practice : orientalism, Western policy, and the Arab uprisings ' , International Affairs , vol. 98 , no. 1 , pp. 45-65 . https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab229en
dc.identifier.issn0020-5850
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8218-1807/work/106397739
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24637
dc.description.abstractTen years on since the Arab uprisings we are in a position to assess how the nexus between knowledge, discourse and practice had a bearing on the trajectory of the protests. They represented hope and change for millions of Arabs in the region, but to what extent was that the case for onlookers in Europe and the US, and did western discourse on events in the Middle East matter? While the toppling of longstanding dictators was met with jubilation by Arab populations, it conversely created anxiety and fear in many western governments. This was reflected in the shift from an initially celebratory discourse in western commentary to disappointment, pessimism and disavowal of the uprisings. Within a year, op-eds and academic articles were asking whether the ‘Arab Spring’ had turned into an ‘Islamist winter’, reverting to Orientalist narratives about the inevitability of conflict, bloodshed and sectarianism in the Middle East. I argue this discourse had implications for the outcome of the uprisings as ‘latent Orientalism’ translated into ‘manifest Orientalism’ and western states hesitated to support opposition groups they initially encouraged and emboldened. I begin the article with a study of western discourse in the first year of the uprisings, which I then situate within a long durée history of western policy and representation of the Middle East. In the final sections I consider the role of scholarship and think tanks as mediators of Orientalist discourse.
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dc.format.extent718699
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Affairsen
dc.subjectJZ International relationsen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccJZen
dc.titleFrom discourse to practice : orientalism, Western policy, and the Arab uprisingsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/ia/iiab229
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2022-01-10


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