Discuss Regional Development in Tunisia: The consequence of multiple level marginalization.

Course: Social Movements – SOC 3303 – 01 Spring 2020 Final Exam (May 22, 2020 ) (24 points) (each question 8 points). Answer ONLY (3) of the following (4) questions (each question 600 words): Critically discuss the social protests of the Gafsa Mining Basin in 2008 in Tunisia. Refer to the Political Process Model (PPM) analytical tools in your analysis. Critically analyze the process of Collective Identity building & its relation to the framing process while reflecting the US Women Liberation Movement (late 60s & after). Critically discuss the repertoire of actions which were adopted by the anti – globalization movements in the WTO summit in Seattle 1999 & in the G8 Summit in Genoa in 2001 while reflecting on the style of policing of these protests. While referring to the PPM in your argumentation, critically assess the 20 the of February Movement and the outcomes it has generated in Morocco. Here is below the list of the assigned readings required for the final exam (posted on the blackboard) in addition to the recorded lectures which have been already sent to you: 1- Whittier, N (2009). Sustaining Commitment among Radical Feminists. In. Jeff Godwin & James Jasper. The Social Movements Reader: Cases & Concepts. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 105-117. 2- Della Porta, D., Andretta, M., Mosca, L. & Reiter, H. (2006). Chap. 5 Media – Conscious & Nonviolent? Protest Repertoires. Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists & Protest Networks. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 118-149. 3- Desrues, T. (2013). Mobilizations in a hybrid regime: The 20th February Movement & the Moroccan Regime. Current Sociology, 61(4) pp. 409 – 423. 4- Sadiki, L. (2019). Regional Development in Tunisia: The consequence of multiple level marginalization. Retrieved from: https://www.brookings.edu/research/regional-development-in-tunisia-the-consequences-of-multiple-marginalization/ 5- Gobe, E. (2018), The Gafsa Mining Basin between Riots and a Social Movement: Meaning and Significance of a protest movement in Ben Ali’s Tunisia. Open Archive HAL. Retrieved from: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/557826/filename/Tunisia_The_Gafsa_mining_basin_between_Riots_and_Social_Movement.pdf 6- Gordner. M (2017). Union for Unemployed Graduates (UDC) – Tunisia, Participedia. 7- Allal, A. (2011). Becoming revolutionary in Tunisia, 2007-2011. In. Joël-BENIN & VAIREL Frédéric, Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, pp. 185-204