Paradoxes of Democratic Progress in Kuwait: The Case of the Kuwaiti Women's Rights Movement

Q3 Social Sciences
Doron Shultziner, M. Tétreault
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Abstract

This paper analyzes the struggle for women’s suffrage in Kuwait to determine how and why it was successful. The research highlights two paradoxical findings: first, democratic progress occurred despite the pacifying and hindering effects of modernization; second, it was supported more strongly and effectively by Kuwait's autocratic executive than the democratically elected Kuwaiti parliament. We delineate two psychological factors that were connected to the climax of the struggle as they were experienced and acted upon by a relatively small number of Kuwaiti middle- and upper-class women: transformative events and the tying of struggle goals to self-esteem. We examine these factors in the context of interaction between chaotic political circumstances and the new strategy and tactics that suffragists employed in the last phase of their struggle. The analytic approach involves process tracing, field research, interviews, and longitudinal analysis of primary and secondary sources.
科威特民主进步的悖论:以科威特妇女权利运动为例
本文分析了科威特争取妇女选举权的斗争,以确定它是如何以及为什么成功的。该研究突出了两个矛盾的发现:第一,尽管现代化具有安抚和阻碍作用,但民主进程还是发生了;第二,它得到科威特专制行政当局比民主选举的科威特议会更有力和有效的支持。我们描述了两个与斗争高潮有关的心理因素,因为它们是由相对少数的科威特中上层阶级妇女经历和采取的:变革事件和斗争目标与自尊的联系。我们在混乱的政治环境和妇女参政主义者在斗争的最后阶段采用的新战略和策略之间的相互作用的背景下考察这些因素。分析方法包括过程追踪、实地调查、访谈以及第一手和第二手资料的纵向分析。
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期刊介绍: Muslim World Journal of Human Rights promises to serve as a forum in which barriers are bridged (or at least, addressed), and human rights are finally discussed with an eye on the Muslim world, in an open and creative manner. The choice to name the journal, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights reflects a desire to examine human rights issues related not only to Islam and Islamic law, but equally those human rights issues found in Muslim societies that stem from various other sources such as socio-economic and political factors, as well the interaction and intersections of the two areas. MWJHR welcomes submissions that apply the traditional human right framework in their analysis as well as those that transcend the boundaries of contemporary scholarship in this regard. Further, the journal also welcomes inter-disciplinary and/or comparative approaches to the study of human rights in the Muslim world in an effort to encourage the emergence of new methodologies in the field. Muslim World Journal of Human Rights recognizes that several highly contested debates in the field of human rights have been reflected in the Muslim world but have frequently taken on their own particular manifestation in accordance with the varying contexts of contemporary Muslim societies.
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