ABSTRACT

Amidst an ostensibly successful transition along the axes of liberal parliamentary democracy since the 2011 revolution, a group of Tunisian left militants organize their own spaces of deliberation and ethical cultivation. Among these is the ciné-club, an assembly that combines film screenings and discussion. By unearthing the diverse chronotopes – temporal and spatial dimensions – of Tunisian revolutionary thought and praxis, the ciné-club assembly disrupts hegemonic understandings of liberal citizenship. By virtue of this disruption, the assembly constitutes an ‘event of citizenship’ that exposes not only the long legacy of protest in Tunisia, but also the diverse understandings of revolution and democracy among the Tunisian citizenry today. The returns of local and global revolutions in the Tunisian present offer us the opportunity to delve into the intricacies of the social life of left political thought and praxis.

摘要

自 2011 年革命以来，在沿着自由议会民主轴心的表面上成功的过渡中，一群突尼斯左翼激进分子组织了他们自己的审议和道德培养空间。其中包括电影俱乐部，一个集电影放映和讨论于一体的集会。通过挖掘突尼斯革命思想和实践的不同时间和空间维度，电影俱乐部集会破坏了对自由公民身份的霸权理解。由于这种中断，集会构成了“公民事件”，不仅暴露了突尼斯长期的抗议活动，而且暴露了当今突尼斯公民对革命和民主的不同理解。突尼斯现在的地方和全球革命的回归为我们提供了深入研究左翼政治思想和实践社会生活错综复杂的机会。