Renegotiating Gender and the State in Tunisia between 2011 and 2014

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIII

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2. Introduction

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 1-14

3. Positionalities, Modernity and the Public Sphere

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 15-27

4. Constructing an Empirically Grounded Framework

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 29-48

5. The Nation State Within the Matrix of Domination

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 49-59

6. Detecting the Matrix of Domination: A Historical Perspective

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 61-84

7. Counterpublic Resistance under Ben Ali’s Rule

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 85-96

8. Challenging the Matrix of Domination

   • Anna Antonakis

   Pages 97-111

9. Analyzing Negotiations of Gender in different Dimensions of the Public Sphere in Tunisia (2011-2014)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-114

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   2. The Structural Dimension of the Public Sphere

      • Anna Antonakis

      Pages 115-150

   3. The Representational Dimension of the Public Sphere

      • Anna Antonakis

      Pages 151-187

   4. The Interactional Dimension of the Public Sphere

      • Anna Antonakis

      Pages 189-218

   5. Conclusion

      • Anna Antonakis

      Pages 219-227

   6. Outlook: Negotiating Homosexualities in Tunisia: Inclusions and Exploitations in the Hegemonic Public Sphere after 2014

      • Anna Antonakis

      Pages 229-231

10. Back Matter

    Pages 233-260

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Anna Antonakis’ analysis of the Tunisian transformation process (2011-2014) displays how negotiations of gender initiating new political orders do not only happen in legal and political institutions but also in media representations and on a daily basis in the family and public space. While conventionalized as a “model for the region”, this book outlines how the Tunisian transformation missed to address social inequalities and local marginalization as much as substantial challenges of a secular but conservative gender order inscribed in a Western hegemonic concept of modernity. She introduces the concept of “dissembled secularism” to explain major conflict lines in the public sphere and the exploitation of gender politics in a context of post-colonial dependencies. 

• Political Transformation
• Intersectional Theory and Epistemology
• Tunisia
• Arab Spring
• Gender
• Feminism
• Public Sphere
• Counterpublic
• Protest
• Media
• Critical Security Studies
• Renegotiating Gender
• Power
• Positionality
• Women’s rights
• Post-colonial regimes in Tunisia

• Berlin, Germany

  Anna Antonakis

Dr. Anna Antonakis is a researcher and consultant in the field of Gender, Media and Security. She investigated the Tunisian transformation process from 2013-2016 as a doctoral fellow at the SWP. 

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