Pardee Center Publishes New Paper on the Role of Youth in the Arab Spring

A new Issues in Brief (No. 21) published by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future examines the role of youth in “the Arab Spring” from the perspective of cultural, social, and market forces holding back a generation on the cusp of adulthood.

“Adulthood Denied: Youth Dissatisfaction and the Arab Spring,” was written by 2011 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow M. Chloe Mulderig, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Boston University. The paper stems from her research as a Pardee Summer Fellow and her previous fieldwork in the Arab world, including interviews with Moroccan youth during the first half of 2011. In this paper, she examines the forces contributing to the inability of youth to cross the threshold to adulthood and how this issue may affect the future of the Arab world.

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