Japanese-Tunisian Online Seminarwill be held on March 11th.

2021.03.01

As every year since the 2011 revolution in Tunisia, the 10th anniversary of this major socio-political change (14 January) has been marked by night-time protests and violent clashes with the Security forces, conducted by young people from the poor and popular classes neighbourhoods of many coastal Tunisian cities (Tunis, Monastir, Souse...) or from the interior (Siliana, Kasserine...).
These violent protests have revealed the extent and depth of the social, economic and also political crisis, which has continued to worsen since 2011. The health crisis linked to Covid 19 has further aggravated the situation since the beginning of last year, 2020.
The seminar aims at overviewing the ten years after the Revolution of 2011 in Tunisia. Tunisia is renown as an only country that succeeded in Revolution in difference to other Arab countries that experienced the so called Arab Spring, with different destinies (hard civil wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen return of an authoritarian regime in Egypt...etc). At the same time, Tunisian society faces serious socioeconomic and political problems such that the Revolution is seen as failure. Thus, the question is "Tunisia after the revolution of 2011: a decade of failure? Is the picture/ the board so dark?".

Four Tunisian and Japanese lecturers/scholars try to answer this question from different approaches : From Tunisian side, Hassan Boubakri, Professor of Geography and Migration Studies (University of Sousse) and Amor Boubakri, Professor of Public law (University of Sousse) and Electoral advisor of the UNDP (Afghanistan and Haiti) From Japanese side, Keiko Takaki, Professor of J. F. Oberlin University (Tokyo), as an anthropologist and expert on Tunisian society, and Erina Iwasaki, Professor of Sophia University (Tokyo), as socioeconomist on North African Societies (Egypt and Tunisia) studies.