{"id":1761,"date":"2021-04-28T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=1761"},"modified":"2021-04-28T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:47:15","slug":"matt-gordner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/matt-gordner\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Gordner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RS_Matthew.Gordner.Photo_-e1619622091240.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1763\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RS_Matthew.Gordner.Photo_-e1619622091240-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RS_Matthew.Gordner.Photo_-e1619622091240-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RS_Matthew.Gordner.Photo_-e1619622091240-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RS_Matthew.Gordner.Photo_-e1619622091240-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RS_Matthew.Gordner.Photo_-e1619622091240-70x60.jpg 70w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RS_Matthew.Gordner.Photo_-e1619622091240.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Gordner<\/strong> is a PhD Candidate in the University of Toronto&#8217;s Department of Political Science where he specializes in political economy, development and comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His dissertation, entitled &#8220;&#8216;Work, Freedom, and National Dignity?&#8217; Passive Revolution and NGO-ization in Tunisia from the Beylic Period to the Present,&#8221; examines the dual impact of capitalism and colonialism on long-term development patterns and social transformation in Tunisia, with a particular focus on the ways in which civil society&#8217;s global integration militates against the kind of social democracy that most Tunisians expect in a post-Ben Ali era. Matt&#8217;s academic work appears in book chapters, peer-reviewed and encyclopedia articles on youth politics, social movements, and other forms of activism and protest politics, tribalism and the politics of &#8220;local solidarities,&#8221; democratization and authoritarianism in the MENA region. His other areas of interest include (de-)radicalization, innovation and entrepreneurship, and the changing dynamics of the Arabic public sphere. Matt&#8217;s doctoral research has been supported by a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, an American Political Science Association (APSA) Civil Society Fellowship, and a series of Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Grants, among others.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Read more from Matthew:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/matt-gordners-project-summary\/\"><strong>A History of Tunisian Populism:\u00a0<em>Tunisianit\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0and its Consequences<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Matt Gordner is a PhD Candidate in the University of Toronto&#8217;s Department of Political Science where he specializes in political economy, development and comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His dissertation, entitled &#8220;&#8216;Work, Freedom, and National Dignity?&#8217; Passive Revolution and NGO-ization in Tunisia from the Beylic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1761","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1761\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}