Contested Legitimacies

Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17755-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Protest and Social Movements

Since the overthrow of President Mursi in mid-2013, Egypt has witnessed an authoritarian rollback and shrinking spaces for civil society. Nationalist discourses have villified popular protest and channelled pressure for reform into a state-centric model of governance. Despite this hostile environment for social mobilization, protest has persisted. Contested Legitimacies explores this resilience of contentious politics through a multimethod approach that is attuned to the physical and discursive interactions among key players in Egypt’s protest arena. Drawing from a unique archive of sources, it investigates the rise and fall of different coalitions of contenders, from the Tamarod uprising against Mursi, to the Anti-Coup resistance against the military coup, to the challenges posed by the Tiran and Sanafir island campaign to Al-Sisi's regime. It highlights the decisive impact of battles fought in a discursive arena on the conditions of possibility for street politics: In postrevolutionary Egypt, a contest over the meaning of political legitimacy cemented political polarization, limited social movements’ coalition choices, and ultimately paved the way for a restoration of autocracy.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grimm, Jannis Julien

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Conceptual Choices and Theoretical Framework, 3 Brothers and Rebels, 4 Coup and Anti-Coup, 5 Myths and Martyrs, 6 New Sheriff in Town, 7 A Tale of Two Islands, 8 Conclusion and Implications, Appendix: A Mixed-Method Approach to the Study of Contentious Interaction, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Jannis Julien Grimm heads the research group Radical Spaces at the Center for Interdisciplinary Peace Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin. For his research on protest-repression dynamics in Egypt, which is at the heart of this book, he received the German Middle East Studies Association’s dissertation award in 2020 and the German Political Science Association’s research award in 2021.