BEYOND QADDAFI’S SHADOWS : SUBNATIONAL NARRATIVES IN RESEARCH ON POST-REVOLUTIONARY LIBYA

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

BEYOND QADDAFI’S SHADOWS : SUBNATIONAL NARRATIVES IN RESEARCH ON POST-REVOLUTIONARY LIBYA

Original language description

Post-Qaddafi Libya – a country driven by protracted civil conflict – has been marked by rising divisions among actors, whose identities are identified on sub-national, rather than national or state level. These actors are related to cities, towns or regions, tribal groups, ethnic minorities or religious fractions. Despite recent attention paid to revolutionary and post-revolutionary Libya, however, it can be identified a general lack of publications dealing with the internal developments. The present article aims to review recent research pieces dealing with the local, tribal, ethnic and religious actors, their respective mutually overlapping identities, and to identify narratives related to these actors discussed in the recent researches. The text discusses several multiple overlapping narratives that testify to the diversity of identities and ties of actors in Libya’s public space. Key to all the narratives is the legacy of the Qaddafi régime. In the present text, as most clearly defined are considered local narratives tied to actors in towns or cities including the western cities Zintan and Misrata struggling for control of the Tripoli institutions, loyalist Bani Walid or eastern cities of Tobruk and Benghazi, which are striving to regain self-government. Narratives on the Tebu, Tuareg and Amazigh ethnic minorities are put into context of their striving for self-determination and also security-related issues posed by the respective ethnic’s activities in Southeast and West of Libya. The article presents the ’Islamist’ narrative as diversified in relation to several Islamist groups and their strategies. Finally, the tribal narrative is considered as rather vague and mentioned as worthy of further empirical elaboration.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/VI20172020094" target="_blank" >VI20172020094: Methodology for the forecast, early warning, and prevention of threats to Czech internal security from regional armed conflicts</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Annals of the „Ovidius” University of Constanta – Political Science Series

ISSN

2286-315X

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

117-136

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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