The point, after all, is to change the world.
Watch Ann Swidler’s lecture, “Loosening Institutional Constraints on Political Conflict,” part of the teach-in seminar series: “What Next? Sociologists Speak on the Future of the World.”
The political revolution in Tunisia that erupted suddenly in December 2010 was followed by sweeping cultural changes, which have received little attention. Muneer Saidani examines the metamorphoses of the national cultural field—and the contests of power therein—in revolutionary Tunisia.