Frédéric Volpi is Senior Lecturer in international politics at the School of International Relations of the University of St Andrews.James M. Jasper is a sociologist at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has each written a number of books on recent social movements, and is the co-editor of book series, Protest and Social Movements.

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• Preface by Frédéric Volpi and James M. Jasper, Introduction: Rethinking Mobilization after the Arab Uprisings. James M. Jasper and Frédéric Volpi 1: The Social Life of Contentious Ideas: Piracy and Unruly, Trans-Local Appropriation in the Arab Uprisings and Beyond. John Chalcraft 2: Routines and Ruptures in Anti-Israeli Protests in Jordan. Jillian Schwedler 3: Shaping Contention as a Salafi Movement: The Rise and Fall of Ansar al-Sharia in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia. Frédéric Volpi 4: Contingency and Agency in a Turning Point Event: March 18th, 2011 in Daraa, Syria. Wendy Pearlman 5: It Takes Two (or More) to Tango: the Local Coproduction of the Alexandrian Revolutionary Moment. Youssef El Chazli 6: Violence, Social Actors, and Subjectivation in the Egyptian Revolution. Farhad Khosrokhavar, Conclusion: Unruly Protest. Charles Kurzman