Arab Revolts Column

Looking back beyond the events that triggered Tunisia’s overthrow of President Ben Ali, the systemic corruption of the state’s numerous officials emerges not as the anomaly of dictatorship, but as the structural control of a surplus population expanded by decades of neoliberal restructuring – writes L.S. in his second Arab Revolts Blog posting

In the first of a blog series aiming to deepen and politicise understandings of the revolts across the Arab world, L.S. kicks off with an anatomisation of the distribution of power, wealth and resistance in the Libyan ‘rentier state'