New Patterns of Mobilization for and against Democracy
Youssef El Chazli
Contact: y.el(at)uniandes.edu.co
Associate Professor of Sociology, Head of the Social Sciences of the Mediterranean Worlds Department, Paris 8 University
Youssef El Chazli is associate professor in political sociology at the University Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, where he also heads the department of Social Sciences of the Mediterranean Worlds. He holds a dual Ph.D. in political science from the Universities of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Lausanne. El Chazli’s main research interest over the past decade and a half has been the study of contention in authoritarian contexts. He has more specifically studied the emergence and decline of the « Arab uprisings », both at the individual level of participants and looking at the collective dynamics of mobilization and demobilization. More recently, El Chazli has shifted his interests towards issues of infrastructural projects, authoritarian consolidation and the ecological crises in North Africa. Finally, he has had a running interest in alternative arts and cultural scenes in the Arab region. During his Global Forum Fellowship, Youssef El Chazli will be working on a book based on his research on the Arab Revolutions and will also be invested in south-south exchanges and discussions around the ecological crises.
Research project
The Foam of Revolutionary Days. An Experiential Study of Revolutionary Emergence and Decline