Global Spatial Flows of Youth Programming, Civil Society Organizing & Social Change in the Middle East, 2001-2015
Mayssun Succarie received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009, and a MA and BA from the American University of Beirut. Since then she has lectured in anthropology and development studies in universities around the Arab region (American University of Beirut; American University of Cairo) and the United States (Columbia & Brown Universities). Her research interests focus on youth, education, development and social movements in the Arab region, with a particular interest in studying the political, economic, cultural and social structures and processes that tie the region in complex and contradictory ways to the larger global political economy. Her first book, Youth Rising? The Politics of Youth in the Global Economy (co-authored with Stuart Tannock) was published earlier this year by Routledge's Critical Youth Studies series. In 2015 she will start teaching at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at King's College London. In the academic year 2015/16, she is affiliated with EUME.
Global Spatial Flows of Youth Programming, Civil Society Organizing & Social Change in the Middle East, 2001-2015
Her research and writing project focuses on the core question of how we should understand the local, regional and global significance of the rapid development of youth civil society organizing and activism in the Middle East that took place over the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century. More specifically, the project seeks to analyze the relationship between two key phenomena involving youth, civil society and social change in the Middle East that emerged during this period.
