Junior Researchers’ Conference: Revolutions and their Afterlives

Participants and research topics:

Emma Beard (Sciences Po Paris), Mobilizing Through Institutions: Kuwaiti Women and the Women’s Cultural and Social Society in 2011–2012
Harriet Marchand (Sciences Po Paris), The Founding of the PKK 1978–1979
Khyati Pandya (Sciences Po Paris), A Crime Against Humanity, By Humanity: How the Movement Against the Extraction, Exploitation and Estrangement of Shale Gas Fracturing Altered Algerian History
Laura-Albane Peyronnet (Sciences Po Paris), The 2017 Rif Movement: Through the Eyes of Nasser Zefzafi
Selim Üzüm (Sciences Po Paris), When rage boils over: Mobilizations in Turkish Kurdistan during 2014-2016

Abstract: What socio-political context pushes people to protest? When do protests get termed a “revolution”? And what forms of afterlives do the revolutions take in terms of the discourses about them as well as the socio-political trajectories of the states experiencing them? Using cases from the contemporary Middle East-North Africa region, the undergraduate students of the Fall 2025 course "Revolutions and their afterlives: The case of Middle East and North Africa" taught by Dr. Shreya Parikh will seek to answer these questions.