Abstract
The article attempts to show that the 2011 social movement in Tunisia was part of a process that began a few years earlier. At that time the essentially socio-economic protest movement was confined to the mining town of Gafsa. The multiplication of such movements, although sporadic, would continue to fuel the mobilization until 2011 and was characterized by the emergence of a wave of protests that were essentially socio-economic in the early days, though it was not long before they presented a challenge to the political order, in particular as they spread to the rest of the country.
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