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Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Han, S., Keskes, H., & Porter, G. (2024). Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(3), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2023.2258075

Employment in the transport sector has historically proven to be male-dominated, even in countries like Tunisia which have evidenced public policy narratives and legal employment frameworks promoting gender equality. This paper presented the findings... Read More about Driven out: women’s employment, the transport sector and social reproduction in Grand Tunis.

The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., Han, S., Dungey, C., …Ambrosini, S. (2023). The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Journal of Transport Geography, 112, Article 103695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103695

This paper draws on ethnographic research conducted 2019–2022 in three quite diverse city regions - Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis - to understand women's lived experiences of work in the road transport sector. The strength of connection between male ide... Read More about The lived experiences of women workers in Africa's transport sector: Reflections from Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis.

‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis (2023)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C., Porter, G., Aouidet, H., Dungey, C., Han, S., Houiji, R., …Zaghoud, H. (2023). ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis. Geoforum, 142, Article 103753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103753

Drawing on an innovative peer researcher method, this paper uses mobility diaries and in-transit interviews to examine the everyday travel experiences of women from socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in metropolitan Grand Tunis. It situat... Read More about ‘No place for a woman’: Access, exclusion, insecurity and the mobility regime in grand tunis.

The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity (2023)
Journal Article
MacDonald, R., King, H., Murphy, E., & Gill, W. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2163884

Young people have faced some of the hardest social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. Taking a critical Youth Studies perspective, we draw on research with nearly 1,000 16-to-30-year olds in North East England in... Read More about The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity.

Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E. C., Adamu, F., Delannoy, A., & Dungey, C. (2023). Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities. Mobilities, 18(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2039561

This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended fami... Read More about Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women's reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities.

Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Han, S., Mansour, H., Keskes, H., Dungey, C., …der Weijde, K. V. (2022). Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid. Transportation Research Procedia, 60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2021.12.035

This paper explores the everyday transport and mobility challenges faced by young women living in one poor peripheral neighborhood of a North African city, Tunis. Discussion spans a two-year period covering conditions prior to and within the COVID-19... Read More about Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid.

Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P., De Lannoy, A., Han, S., …Van der Weidje, K. (2021). Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19. Transport Policy, 110, 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.05.025

This paper reflects on the mobility experiences of women in African cities in COVID-19, based on research conducted both prior to and following entry into the COVID-19 ‘moment’. It draws on material collected during an ongoing action research study a... Read More about Women's mobility and transport in the peripheries of three African cities: Reflecting on early impacts of COVID-19.

The In-securitisation of Youth in the South and East Mediterranean (2018)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2018). The In-securitisation of Youth in the South and East Mediterranean. The International Spectator, 53(2), 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2018.1454084

The securitisation of youth as a social category has been well-documented. For the South and East Mediterranean (SEM) countries, moral panics over demographic youth bulges, Islamist radicalisation and protracted conflicts have placed youth centre-sta... Read More about The In-securitisation of Youth in the South and East Mediterranean.

A Political Economy of Youth Policy in Tunisia (2017)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2017). A Political Economy of Youth Policy in Tunisia. New Political Economy, 22(6), 676-691. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1311848

This paper seeks to add to debates over the contribution that a political economy approach can make to understanding the current condition of youth, specifically narrowing the focus to youth policy. The paper suggests an approach which locates youth... Read More about A Political Economy of Youth Policy in Tunisia.

The Tunisian elections of October 2011: a democratic consensus. (2012)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2013). The Tunisian elections of October 2011: a democratic consensus. The Journal of North African Studies, 18(2), 231-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2012.739299

In October 2011, Tunisia held its first free and fair elections since independence was gained in 1956. In January the authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali had fled the country, following a month of sustained and widespread popular protest. Th... Read More about The Tunisian elections of October 2011: a democratic consensus..

Problematizing Arab Youth: Generational Narratives of Systemic Failure (2012)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C. (2012). Problematizing Arab Youth: Generational Narratives of Systemic Failure. Mediterranean Politics, 17(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2012.655043

Arab youth have proved to be an engine for long-awaited political change in the region, but who are they and how should we understand them as a phenomenon rather than simply a social category? This paper suggests that the various paradigms which exis... Read More about Problematizing Arab Youth: Generational Narratives of Systemic Failure.

"The Arab State and (Absent) Civility in New Communicative Spaces" (2011)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. C. (2011). "The Arab State and (Absent) Civility in New Communicative Spaces". Third World Quarterly, 32(5), 959-980. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2011.578972

This study examines how Arab states have constructed national regulatory regimes for satellite television and telecommunications which undermine or inhibit the emergence of the three normative requisites for a civil political culture: freedom, equali... Read More about "The Arab State and (Absent) Civility in New Communicative Spaces".

Framing New Communicative Technologies in the Arab World (2011)
Journal Article
Daoudi, A., & Murphy, E. (2011). Framing New Communicative Technologies in the Arab World. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 4(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1386/jammr.4.1.3_1

This article explores how the academic discourses that have arisen out of research into the political and sociocultural impacts of contemporary information and communications technologies in the Arab world both mirror and diverge from similar discour... Read More about Framing New Communicative Technologies in the Arab World.

Theorizing ICTs in the Arab World: Informational Capitalism and the Public Sphere (2009)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2009). Theorizing ICTs in the Arab World: Informational Capitalism and the Public Sphere. International Studies Quarterly, 53(4), 1131-1153. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2009.00571.x

The concept of the public sphere has become a commonly used paradigm for understanding the impact of contemporary Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) on the political spaces of the Arab world. This article aims to explore the multiple... Read More about Theorizing ICTs in the Arab World: Informational Capitalism and the Public Sphere.

Agency and space : information technology and political reform in the Gulf Arab States (2006)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2006). Agency and space : information technology and political reform in the Gulf Arab States. Third World Quarterly, 27(6), 1059-1083. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590600850376

Recent political reforms in the Gulf Arab countries have been variously understood as regime survival strategies, correlates of economic globalisation, and even the end result of US pressure to democratise. This paper examines the possible role playe... Read More about Agency and space : information technology and political reform in the Gulf Arab States.

'Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict'. (2005)
Book Chapter
Murphy, E. (2005). 'Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict'. In Y. M. Choueiri (Ed.), A Companion to the History of the Middle East (269-290). Blackwell

'The Foreign Policy of Tunisia'. (2002)
Book Chapter
Murphy, E. (2002). 'The Foreign Policy of Tunisia'. In R. Hinnebusch, & A. Ehteshami (Eds.), The Foreign Policies of the Middle East States (235-256). Lynne Rienner

'The State and the Private Sector in North Africa: Seeking Specificity' (2001)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2001). 'The State and the Private Sector in North Africa: Seeking Specificity'. Mediterranean Politics, 6(2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/713604511

There is a tendency in neo-liberal economics to consider the state and the private sector as one another's antitheses, as dichotomous and mutually exclusive. Moreover, the prevailing notion is that 'public is bad, private is good', meaning that the r... Read More about 'The State and the Private Sector in North Africa: Seeking Specificity'.

'Human Rights in Tunisia: Dilemmas for the European Union' (2001)
Journal Article
Murphy, E. (2001). 'Human Rights in Tunisia: Dilemmas for the European Union'. Mediterranean journal of human rights, 5, 199-224

The European Union has repeatedly expressed its concern that the Southern Mediterranean Partner states (SMPs) should promote and protect human rights as defined by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and as recognised by those states in th... Read More about 'Human Rights in Tunisia: Dilemmas for the European Union'.