TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sowers,Jeannie Lynn
AU  - Toensing,Christopher J.
TI  - The journey to Tahrir: revolution, protest, and social change in Egypt 
SN  - 184467875X
AV  - DT107.87 .J68 2012
U1  - 962.055 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - "This book is a collective effort by the contributing authors to Middle East Report."--Acknowledgements; Includes bibliographical references and index; Egypt in transformation / Jeannie Sowers -- Part I. The January 25 revolution -- The praxis of the Egyptian revolution / Mona El-Ghobashy -- The eighteen days of Tahrir / Ahmad Shokr -- The poetry of revolt / Elliott Colla -- Revolution and counter-revolution in the Egyptian media / Ursula Lindsey -- Taking out the trash: youth clean up Egypt after Mubarak / Jessica Winegar -- Part II. Protest under authoritarian rule -- The "Arab street" / Asef Bayat -- Activist dissent and anti-war protests in Egypt / Paul Schemm -- The working class and the popular movement in Egypt / Joel Beinin -- The wall Mubarak made / Ursula Lindsey -- Part III. Political participation and political institutions under Mubarak -- Unsettling the authorities: constitutional reform in Egypt / Mona El-Ghobashy -- The dynamics of elections under Mubarak / Mona El-Ghobashy -- Controlled reform in Egypt: neither reformist nor controlled / Issandr El-Amrani -- The Muslim Brothers in Mubarak's last decade / Samer Shehata and Joshua Stacher -- The Gama'a Islamiyya: from impasse to opportunity / Ewan Stein -- Cross and crescent in post-Mubarak Egypt / Mariz Tadros -- Part IV. Economic reform, demography, and environment -- Economic reform and privatization in Egypt / Karen Pfeifer -- Dreamland: the neoliberalism of your desires / Timothy Mitchell -- Demographic surprises foreshadow change in neoliberal Egypt / Eric Denis -- Mining for fish: privatization of the "commons" along Egypt's northern coastline / Ray Bush and Amal Sabri -- Diametta mobilizes for its environment / Sharif Elmusa and Jeannie Sowers -- Part V. The cultural politics of youth, gender, and marriage -- Downveiling: gender and the contest over culture in Cairo / Linda Herrera -- The fiction (and non-fiction) of Egypt's marriage crisis / Hanan Kholoussy -- Explaining Egypt's targeting of gays / Hossam Bahgat -- Imagined youths / Ted Swedenburg
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