PCANL

Question 1

Bogaert

Answer 1

Arab Spring not just rejection of authoritarianism but NL. NL is idiosyncratic. Based on accumulation by dispossession.
Restoration of class in the global south.
Arab Spring - recovery programmes represent new forms of patronage, accumulation and exploitation.

Question 2

Salamandra

Answer 2

Old Damascus, New Damascus

Question 3

Ghannam

Answer 3

Cairo - Dispossession of 5000 families from Bulaq, Cairo to al-Hamra

Question 4

Jones

Answer 4

Water is the key point of contest in the region. Oil funds used by Saudi Arabia to fund desalinisation.
Saudi’s distributed wealth to enjoy complete power - Faustian bargain.

Question 5

Ong

Answer 5

Looks at the notion of valuable citizens applied in Singapore

Question 6

Heydemann

Answer 6

Three phases:
1. Washington Consensus - 1980s - state as problem
2. Neoinstitutionalism - 1990 - more open to state, remains central to the economy
3. Re-regulation - full on state intervention; markets as politics
1980s - Morocco - WB forced tariffs from 300% to 0-35% in Structural Adjustment Programme.

Question 7

Valbjorn and Bank

Answer 7

ME has to be understood in an extra-regional context.

Question 8

Knudsen

Answer 8

Cedar revolution - broke pax-Syriana. Resulted in politicisation of Hezbollah. Hariri in tomb in Martyr’s square. Solidere -> central bank

Question 9

Baumann

Answer 9

1964 - Hariri emigrates, becomes rich in Saudi. Death as polarising

Question 10

Atia

Answer 10

Faith Based Development Organisations - FBDOs - recognised by the WB. Taken over where state developmentalism left off. Pious neoliberalism.

Question 11

Sadat

Answer 11

President of Egypt following Nasser

Question 12

Khalidi

Answer 12

Reframing of the Palestinian Question through Neoliberalism.

Question 13

Olmsted

Answer 13

GDI and GEM - marginal gains for women in neoliberal era - has not solved reproductive question.

Question 14

Brenner

Answer 14

Neoliberalism opens up new spaces for the state.

Question 15

laiklik

Answer 15

The principle of secularism enshrined in the operational doctrines of Kemalism.

Question 16

Evidence the failing the state developmental model in Egypt

Answer 16

BY 1965, the sewage system in Cairo had broken down, and took some three months to repair. Congestion and high density housing dramatically impacted the conditions present within the state.

Question 17

Evidence the failing the state developmental model in Egypt

Answer 17

BY 1965, the sewage system in Cairo had broken down, and took some three months to repair. Congestion and high density housing dramatically impacted the conditions present within the state.

Question 18

Volker Shock

Answer 18

US jacked up interest prices causing the debts abroad to rise to crippling levels in the Global South - from 10% to 48% of GDP in the 15 most heavily indebted nations.

Question 19

Hanieh

Answer 19

BWI institutions driving forward adoption of neoliberalism. $60 million to fund the transitions in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco in 2011. Still privatisation, deregulation and opening to FDI.
Oil seen as strategic commodity.

Question 20

Atasoy

Answer 20

Islam’s marriage with neoliberalism - looking at the liberalisation packages undertaken by the AKP party in 2000s which sought a greater role for Islam in the state - violating principles of Kemalism.

Question 21

Ferguson

Answer 21

Capital does not flow, it jumps from space to space.

Question 22

Amr Khaled

Answer 22

Da’wa star, 2008. His TV show “Sonaa Alhayat” (Life Makers) morphed into a social association per invitation during one of his episodes, where he said that serving society and working on its development is part of someone’s religion.

Question 23

Bush

Answer 23

Poverty comes not from the exclusion but inclusion in the neoliberal economy

Question 24

Amr Khaled

Answer 24

Da’wa star, 2008. His TV show “Sonaa Alhayat” (Life Makers) morphed into a social association per invitation during one of his episodes, where he said that serving society and working on its development is part of someone’s religion.

Question 25

Citizens of Dubai

Answer 25

Only 10-15% are actually citizens. Flexible citizenship.

Question 26

Dubai male culture

Answer 26

Commodified, libertine culture -> consumerist landscape. Symbolic capital held in gender, ethnicity.