Resumen de Pour une sociologie des situations révolutionnaires: Retour sur les révoltes arabes
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi, Olivier Fillieule
In this paper, departing from a non causalist epistemology, we focus our attention on the study of revolutionary situations, instead of back- ground conditions or revolutionnary outcomes which, as a literature review on the “ Arab upri- sings ” shows, have received the lion's share of research in the field. Furthermore we argue that one should move away from describing the recur- rent properties of revolutionary situations to study the sequences of action – here defined as complex chains of interaction – which contribute to produce these situations. Based on a compa- rison of various cases in the MENA region, we identify a series of relational and cognitive pro- cesses which can able us to better understand how revolutionary situations are produced and develop.
