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@article{ART002561072},
author={Gi Yeon Koo and Ahrum Yoo},
title={Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution},
journal={Asia Review},
issn={2234-0386},
year={2020},
volume={9},
number={2},
pages={41-84},
doi={10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41}

TY - JOUR
AU - Gi Yeon Koo
AU - Ahrum Yoo
TI - Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution
JO - Asia Review
PY - 2020
VL - 9
IS - 2
PB - 아시아연구소
SP - 41
EP - 84
SN - 2234-0386
AB - Two mass civil movements shaped Iran and Tunisia 10 years ago. In Iran, the political movement arose against a fraudulent presidential election in 2009. In Tunisia, Ben Ali’s authoritarian regime collapsed by the mass civil demonstration with the resentment on the high unemployment, corruption, and the lack of political freedom. According to Bayat, unlike the conventional revolution, those two civil movements occurred spontaneously without a certain ideology or ideologue. This article argues that the failure of Neo-Liberalism policy in 1980s led to the mass civil disobedience to the ante quo in Iran and Tunisia. There was the high expectation from the people that the Neo-Liberalism would enhance the level of political freedom and the economy. The elite cartel, however, monopolized the benefit of Neo-Liberalism policy and the authoritarian regimes strengthened the violent political apparatus rather than opening the political freedom. There has been rising of the economic polarization, the unemployment rate and deteriorating social injustice with the perpetual corruption in Iranian and Tunisian society. Drawing on the discrepancy between the high expectation on change and the harsh reality, the relative depression drove the mass political unrest. Those civil movements and their aftermath are significant markers for where Iran and Tunisia stand today. In this regard, this article draws the analysis on the development process of those movements and their aftermath in the context of Neo-Liberalism.
KW - Iran;Tunisia;Green Movement;Tunisian Revolution;Neo-Liberalism
DO - 10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41
ER -

Gi Yeon Koo and Ahrum Yoo. (2020). Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution. Asia Review, 9(2), 41-84.

Gi Yeon Koo and Ahrum Yoo. 2020, "Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution", Asia Review, vol.9, no.2 pp.41-84. Available from: doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41

Gi Yeon Koo, Ahrum Yoo "Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution" Asia Review 9.2 pp.41-84 (2020) : 41.

Gi Yeon Koo, Ahrum Yoo. Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution. 2020; 9(2), 41-84. Available from: doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41

Gi Yeon Koo and Ahrum Yoo. "Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution" Asia Review 9, no.2 (2020) : 41-84.doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41

Gi Yeon Koo; Ahrum Yoo. Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution. Asia Review, 9(2), 41-84. doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41

Gi Yeon Koo; Ahrum Yoo. Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution. Asia Review. 2020; 9(2) 41-84. doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41

Gi Yeon Koo, Ahrum Yoo. Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution. 2020; 9(2), 41-84. Available from: doi:10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41

Gi Yeon Koo and Ahrum Yoo. "Unfinished Revolutions and Precarious Lives: Ten years after the Iranian Green Movement and the Tunisian Revolution" Asia Review 9, no.2 (2020) : 41-84.doi: 10.24987/SNUACAR.2020.02.9.2.41