Vol. 9 No. 033 (2020): Issue 033

غلاف العدد 33 من دورية عمران

Issue 33 of Omran for Social Sciences and Humanities (Summer 2020) includes the following studies and articles: “Defining by Abstraction: Solving the Problem of Contested Concepts in Social Sciences (the Concept of “Security” as an Example)” (Sid A. Goudjili); “The Rif Movement in Morocco and the Collective Memory: Acknowledgment as a Beginning to the State’s Reconciliation with Its Painful Past” (Mohamed Saadi); “The Impact of Social and Solidarity Economy Initiatives on Rebuilding the Economic Culture of Socially Vulnerable Groups: A Case Study in Tunisia” (Safouane Trabelsi); “Exception of the Exception: Palestinian “Bare” Education under Colonialism in Palestine” (Lourdes Habash, Ghada Almadbouh); “The Shi'i Religious Marja’iyya and the Political-Social Space: A Reading into the Experiences of Muhammad al-Sadr and Ali al-Sistani” (Harith Hasan); “Manuel Castells and the Concept of the Network Society: An Interpretative Approach to Identity and Power in the Information Age” (Driss El Ghazouani); “Collective Identity and Social Movements” (Francesca Polletta, James M. Jasper); “The Nakba and The Emergence of the Palestinian Diaspora in Kuwait” (Majd Abuamer); “The Ghris Oasis Colonialism: The Mechanism of Change and Forms of Resistance” (Rachid Zaafrane).

Published: 2020-07-01

Studies

  • Defining by Abstraction: Solving the Problem of Contested Concepts in Social Sciences (the Concept of “Security” as an Example)

    Author: Sid A. Goudjili (Author)
    7-35

    Concepts are critical to the functioning and evolution of social sciences. Conceptual confusion has long been a source of difficulty in the study of social science and politics. W. B. Gallie’s...

  • The Rif Movement in Morocco and the Collective Memory: Acknowledgment as a Beginning to the State’s Reconciliation with Its Painful Past

    Author: Mohamed Saadi (Author)
    37-61

    The concept of economic marginalization alone is not sufficient to provide an in-depth understanding of the dynamics produced by the popular Rif movement in Morocco since the tragic death of...

  • The Impact of Social and Solidarity Economy Initiatives on Rebuilding the Economic Culture of Socially Vulnerable Groups: A Case Study in Tunisia

    Author: Safouane Trabelsi (Author)
    63-84

    Based on the analysis of qualitative data collected in a set of semi-guided questionnaires targeting founding members of different Tunisian social and solidarity economy initiatives that emerged...

  • Exception of the Exception: Palestinian “Bare” Education under Colonialism in Palestine Cited once

    Author: Lourdes Habash, Ghada Almadbouh (Author)
    85-112

    This article demonstrates the ways through which the Israeli colonisation has affected the structure of the Palestinian education in the Occupied Territories since 1967 by examining the related...

  • The Shi'i Religious Marja’iyya and the Political-Social Space: A Reading into the Experiences of Muhammad al-Sadr and Ali al-Sistani

    Author: Harith Hasan (Author)
    113-139

    Most studies dealing with the activities of Shi'i religious actors tend to classify them as falling within the binaries of politicized and non-politicized, or reformists and traditionalists....

Discussions

  • Manuel Castells and the Concept of the Network Society: An Interpretative Approach to Identity and Power in the Information Age

    Author: Driss El Ghazouani (Author)
    143-162

    The contribution of Manuel Castells’ Information Age reaches beyond building the concept of a network society, to dismantle the reality of information and communication technology. Indicating a...

Translation

  • Collective Identity and Social Movements

    Author: Francesca Polletta, James M. Jasper (Author)
    165-198

    Sociologists have turned to collective identity to fill gaps in resource mobilization and political process accounts of the emergence, trajectories, and impacts of social movements. Collective...

Book Reviews

  • The Nakba and The Emergence of the Palestinian Diaspora in Kuwait

    Author: Majd Abuamer (Author)
    201-210

    Author : Shafiq al-Ghabra. Title : The Nakba and The Emergence of the Palestinian Diaspora in Kuwait. Publisher : Doha/ Beirut: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies. Date of Publication :...

  • The Ghris Oasis Colonialism: The Mechanism of Change and Forms of Resistance

    Author: Rachid Zaafrane (Author)
    211-220

    Author : Kosta ni Ben Mohamed. Title : The Ghris Oasis Colonialism: The Mechanism of Change and Forms of Resistance. Publisher : Rabat: Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture. Date of Publication :...