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This chapter engages with how the tumultuous political transformations that shook the Arab world between 2011 and 2013 affected different women’s experiences of security on the ground and the extent to which prevailing frameworks of analysis were conceptually useful for capturing their complexity and nuance. This chapter draws on an empirical study based on research experiences in Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and with a particular focus on Egypt. All case studies seek to engage with the intersection of political identity, gender, religion and class at various levels. The empirical data has guided the process of critical theoretical engagement via an inductive approach in the tradition of grounded theory.
The author would like to express her gratitude to Dr Monier for helpful feedback on an earlier draft of this paper and to the British Academy mid-career fellowship for affording her the time to write this paper, which would not have been possible without their generous support. All disqualifiers apply.
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Tadros, M. (2015). Whose Security Lens on Gender Matters in the Arab Uprisings?. In: Monier, E. (eds) Regional Insecurity After the Arab Uprisings. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137503978_6
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