Atef Shahat Said

Revolution Squared

Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on historical analysis and his own participation in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, Atef Shahat Said examines how limited reformist demands and the failure of Egyptians to fully grasp their clout reduced the revolutionâ s potential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025504
• ISBN-10: 1478025506
• Artikelnr.: 67743715

Autorenporträt

Atef Shahat Said is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of two books in Arabic.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Transliteration  xii
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction. Revolution as Lived Contingency  1
1. Prelude to Revolutionary Possibilities: Tahrir and Political Protest in
Egypt  31
2. Peak of Revolutionary Possibilities: Squared I: How the Revolution Was
“Bound” within Tahrir  57
3. Sovereignty in the Street: Popular Committees, Revolutionary
Ambivalence, and Unrealized Power  87
4. The Two Souls of the Egyptian Revolution: Democratic Demands, Radical
Strikes  112
5. Waning Revolutionary Possibilities: Squared II: Counterrevolutionary
Coercion and Elections without Democratization  147
6. Square Zero: The State, Counterrevolutionary Paranoia, and the
Withdrawal of Activists  178
Conclusion: Revolution as Experience  210
Appendix 1. Brief Timeline of the Egyptian Revolution, 2011–2018  227
Appendix 2. A Note on Positionality  231
Appendix 3. Notes on Methods, or How I Conducted Historical Ethnography of
a Revolution  235
Appendix 4. Major Political Coalitions in Egypt, 2000–2010  251
Notes  263
References  289
Index  325