Antipredicative political affects and language in the post-revolution of urban Egypt
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2019v24n3p114Keywords:
Urban manifestations, Focused gathering, Antipredicative political affects, Post-revolution, EgyptAbstract
The text aims to produce analytical considerations on two forms of popular mobilization extending through the period known as ba?d al-tha?ra (the post-Egyptian Revolution of 25 January 2011): al-f?s – also known as "the debates" – and the brutust?t al-?ay (the neighborhood protests). The political potentiality of these modalities of manifestations is caught in the character here called work in progress of their experiences: their capacity for mobilization based on the valorization of the process of execution of the communicational acts and the spontaneity with which the participant collectives are formed. Taking these popular events in the form of concentrated meetings opens a reflection on the constitutive strangles they inspire among the inhabitants of the Cairota peripheries, as well as on the linguistic, affective and, above all, political identifications that enable them. The results reported here were based on an ethnographic incursion carried out between 2014 and 2015 by the city of Cairo and by villages in Lower Egypt, when the subject of youths and their expressive ways of communicating the time of the post-Revolution occupied the center of research interest.References
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COHEN, R. Working in progress na cena contemporânea. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1998.
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GLUCKMAN, M. Rituals of rebellion in South-East Africa. In: GLUCKMAN, M. Order and rebellion in tribal Africa. London: Cohen & West, 1963. p. 110-136.
GOFFMAN, E. Encounters: two studies in the sociology of interaction. Indianapolis: U.I., 1961.
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HELLER, M. Bilingualism: a social approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
HINDS, M.; BADAWI, E. Muᶜjam al-lugha al-ᶜarabīya al-miṣry (A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic). Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 2009.
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ILETO, R. C. Pasyon and revolution: popular movements in the Philippines. Quezon City: ADMU Press, 1997.
KANDIL, H. Soldiers, spies, and statesmen: Egypt’s road to revolt. London: Verso, 2015.
KEPEL, G. Muslim extremism in Egypt: the Prophet and pharaoh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
KEPEL, G. The roots of radical Islam. London: SAQI, 2005.
LESCH, A. M. Concentrated power breeds corruption, repression, and resistance. In: KAMRAVA, M. Beyond the Arab Spring: the evolving ruling bargain in the Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. p. 17-42.
MAHMOOD, S. Sectarian conflict and family law in contemporary Egypt. American Ethnologist, Washington, v. 39, p. 54-62, 2012.
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THOMPSON, J. A history of Egypt: from earliest times to the present. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2011.
ZAIR, M. The Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s succession crisis: the politics of liberalization and reform in the Middle East. London: I. B. Tauris, 2012.
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SANTOS, Potyguara Alencar dos. Antipredicative political affects and language in the post-revolution of urban Egypt. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 24, n. 3, p. 114–124, 2019. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2019v24n3p114. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/36553. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.
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