Making revolution in Egypt The 6 April Youth Movement in a global context
Making revolution in Egypt: The 6 April Youth Movement in a global context

"The April 6th Youth Movement began as a Facebook page that sought to mobilize young Egyptians' support for striking industrial workers. Established in Egypt in 2008 when over 100,000 Facebook users joined, the movement consisted mainly of young Egyptians who had never been involved in pol...

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1. Verfasser: Sonay, Ali 1984- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Library of modern Middle East studies
Schlagworte:
Protest movements / Egypt / History / 21st century
Egypt / History / Protests, 2011-2013
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Zusammenfassung:"The April 6th Youth Movement began as a Facebook page that sought to mobilize young Egyptians' support for striking industrial workers. Established in Egypt in 2008 when over 100,000 Facebook users joined, the movement consisted mainly of young Egyptians who had never been involved in politics before. The group's unprecedented popularity meant that it eventually coalesced into a political movement and played a key role in the revolution against Hosni Mubarak's rule. This book investigates the rise and fall of the April 6th Movement to explain the contentious dynamics of social activism in Egypt. Despite the Movement's initial success, it was banned by an Egyptian court and its main founders arrested after it later turned against the military-installed regime. The formal transition process following Mubarak's fall had posed ideological and organizational challenges to the Movement, leading to internal fragmentations and the gradual loss of its mobilizing capacity. But Ali Sonay argues here that social movements around the world faced very similar opportunities and constraints, and that the political and socio-economic dynamics in Egypt cannot be understood by referring to concepts such as the 'West' and 'Middle East'. Instead, according to Sonay, the Arab uprisings were embedded in the increasingly volatile global political and socio-economic context that reached way beyond the Middle East and was exacerbated by the financial crisis in 2008. Based on first-hand and in-depth empirical findings, Sonay sheds new light on the so-called Arab Spring and presents the April 6th Movement as a manifestation of a global political discourse."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Acknowledgements -- Note on translation and transliteration -- Acronyms -- Part 1: The Middle East in a global context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing contentious politics in a global context -- Part 2: the road to 25 January 2011 -- 3. Contentious politics in Egypt: a historical reflection -- 4. Contentious politics since the 2000s: a turning point -- 5. The emergence of the 6th of April Youth Movement -- Part 3: The 6th of April Youth Movement and its contentious discursive context -- 6. Demanding change -- 7. Organizational structure -- 8. Mobilizing against the regime -- 9. Conclusion: Manifestations of contemporary contentious politics in a global context -- Appendix. List of interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography
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ISBN:9781350987081
DOI:10.5040/9781350987081

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