Mohamed Slim Ben Youssef and Victor Dupont, «Du campus au salariat: carrières militantes de gauche et rétributions matérielles en Tunisie post-2011», Arab Worlds, 2025/2 N° 8, 2025, pp.85-109. CAIRN.INFO, https://shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes-arabes-2026-1-page-85?lang=fr.

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Article summary:

Based on interviews conducted in Tunis and Jendouba with male and female activists who had become politicised on university campuses, this article examines the subsequent effects of the student union experience in the transition to professional life. The study begins by examining the meaning of this militant self-interest as a means of political subjectivation for the respondents. It then highlights the retributive effects of membership of activist networks formed on campus, in terms of employment and improved living conditions. By reinterpreting the typical careers of activists in terms of their inter(re)acquaintance networks, the paper looks at what activism brings, in terms of material subsistence, to its politicised protagonists at Tunisian universities in an authoritarian and (post-)revolutionary context. It emphasises that the rewards of left-wing activism depend more on socio-geographical solidarity, family ties and comradeship, as well as affinity groups, than on autonomous militant and trade union organisations.

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Contents :

Editorial: When the learned word becomes suspect: the imposture of balance

File " Student commitments», coordinated by Amin Allal & Layla Baamara

- Student housing or the ambivalence of commitment and social mobility - Amin Allal & Layla Baamara

- Rising without giving up. Trajectories of upward social mobility and the activist commitments of engineering students in Morocco in the 1970s - Joseph Hivert

- «Down with the regime of trustee rectors in Turkey!». An ethnographic study of student disengagement trajectories within the University of Boğaziçi occupation movement - Léa Cucala

- From campus to wage-earning: left-wing activist careers and material rewards in post-2011 Tunisia - Victor Dupont & Mohamed Slim Ben Youssef

- Student involvement and «civic» re-engagement. Visit hirak in Jerada, Morocco (2017-2018) - Olivier Deau

- Simulating, appropriating and politicising. Student socialisation and neoliberal higher education reforms in Egypt - Farah Ramzy

- From the campus to the streets. Student mobilisation and political commitment in Algeria (2011-2019) - Layla Baamara

Maintenance

- The social sciences of what matters. Interview with Neil Ketchley - by Youssef El Chazli

Books, sounds & images

- Hala Awada & Lama Kabbanji (eds.), Lebanese universities in crisis. Higher education and social conflicts, IRD éditions/Dar Al-Farabi, Beirut, 2024 - by Rita Ghattas