Daniela Pioppi’s research while affiliated with University of Naples - L'Orientale and other places

... P recarious work has been recognized as a key feature of the global economy and a growing concern in the global North and South. In addition to job insecurities in private sectors and the proliferation of an informal economy, many Arab and Mediterranean societies have witnessed increasing precariousness in public-sector employment (Paciello and Pioppi 2021). Compared to workers in the neighboring countries, however, workers in Tunisia have more actively and successfully defended their job security, as marked by annual wage increases and the formalization of a large number of casual workers in the public sectors after 2011. ...

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Mobilizing within and beyond the Labor Union: A Case of Precarious Workers’ Collective Actions in North Africa

... The state was also controlling economy in order to foster political control over the population and Ben Ali's popularity (Sadiki, 2002). However, episodes of revolt have taken place during Ben Ali's regime, despite the centralized state having created mechanisms of co-optation of the young generation in order to control them and foster national identity through programs of public administration employment (Paciello and Pioppi, 2018). He started economic restructuring (until the end of 1990s) by introducing neoliberal reforms that include abolishing price control and state subsidies as well as fostering privatization. ...

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Tunisia’s Institutional Change after the Revolution: Politics, Institutions and Change Agents

... The youth of Egypt played a vital role in the AS uprisings (LaGraffe, 2012; United Nations Development Programme [UNDP], 2016; Paciello and Pioppi, 2018). The AS is often described as a youth rebellion against the political status quo, low economic opportunities and unemployment (Campante and Chor, 2012;Hoffman and Jamal, 2012). ...

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Did the Arab Spring lead to economic, institutional and sociopolitical changes? An empirical analysis through the perceptions of Egyptian youth

... Salafists argue that 'urfi marriages are a 'remedy to high wedding costs and premarital sex' and have in recent years advocated for its legalization. 53 Student protesters of Islamist persuasion have argued that the state had no right to forbid a custom that is now religiously authorized and thus called halāl marriages. ...

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The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait

... On Casablanca's margins, this has meant the growing presence of NGOs and CBOs, such as the one directed by Mr. B. whose programs I attended, focused on helping "youth at risk" through activities that employ "street arts" and the language of "children's rights" as a way of combating the pernicious infl uences of the street, and preemptively "de-radicalizing" disenfranchised youth. 17 When their rebelliousness was not channeled into sanitized artistic pursuits, lower-class youth were "responsibilized" through a variety of public privately funded programs and activities meant to incorporate them into vocational training schemes or develop their "entrepreneurial" skill sets (see Paciello et al. 2016). 18 As Susanna Trnka and Catherine Trundle (2014) point out, this limited conception of responsibility does not do justice to the many other available forms and meanings that local communities may enact on the basis of other logics and within a variety of potentially competing frameworks. ...

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Dissenting poses: Marginal youth, viral aesthetics, and affective politics in neoliberal Morocco