El factor tribal en las revueltas árabes: capitalismo de familias y revolución política

Authors

  • Jesús Gil Fuensanta
  • Ariel José James
  • Alejandro Lorca
Keywords: kin-based clan, Syria, Arab Spring, food crisis and “Bread revolts”, crony capitalism

Abstract

The Western world uses to ignore the tribal factor in almost every analysis because a mentality far from the kin-based group, a concept prevailing in the Muslim world. Speaking of the tribal structure in those societies, the present study focuses on several revolts within the Muslim world, which took place during 2011 and 2012. A forerunner are the so-called “bread revolts” of the period 2009-2010, then buried deep in the media news. The international food crisis and increase of prices had impact and forced the popular revolts of several Muslim countries of Africa and Asia. The factor which articulates the Arab revolt is an armed conflict among several ethnic, religious and tribal groups, fighting each other in order to monopolize the national welfare. The Arab revolt, the so-called “Arab spring”, caused a change of the clans in power, but the traditional elites keep running on, and so abiding the “crony capitalism” of the Arab-Muslim world.

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Gil Fuensanta, J., James, A. J., & Lorca, A. (2012). El factor tribal en las revueltas árabes: capitalismo de familias y revolución política. Historical Sociology, 1(1). Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/sh/article/view/165151
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