Egypt in a Time of Revolution: Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring

222 Pages·2017·8.52 MB·English

by  Neil Ketchley

EgyptinaTimeofRevolution
This book considers the diverse forms of mass mobilization and
contentious politics that emerged during the Egyptian Revolution of
2011 and its aftermath. Drawing on a catalog of more than 8,000
protest events, as well as interviews, video footage and still
photographs, Neil Ketchley provides the first systematic account of
how Egyptians banded together to overthrow Husni Mubarak, and
how old regime forces engineered a return to authoritarian rule.
Eschewing top-down, structuralist, and culturalist explanations, the
authorshowsthatthecausesandconsequencesofMubarak’s ousting
can only be understood by paying close attention to the evolving
dynamics of contentious politics witnessed in Egypt since 2011.
Setting these events within a larger social and political context,
Ketchley sheds new light on the trajectories and legacies of the Arab
Spring, as well as recurring patterns of contentious collective action
foundintheMiddleEastandbeyond.
Neil Ketchley is Lecturer in Middle East Politics at King’s College
London. He was a Hulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brasenose
College, University of Oxford, from 2014–2016. He received his
Ph.D.inPoliticalSciencefromtheLondonSchoolofEconomics.

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Egypt in a Time of Revolution
Contentious Politics and the Arab Spring
NEIL KETCHLEY
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Contents
ListofFigures pagex
ListofTables xii
PrefaceandAcknowledgments xiii
ANoteonTransliteration xvi
1 Introduction 1
2 CollectiveViolence 18
3 Fraternization 46
4 DemocraticTransition 78
5 ManufacturingDissent 103
6 Anti-CoupMobilization 130
7 Conclusion 157
Appendix 163
Bibliography 169
Index 193
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