The modularity of the ‘revolutionary’ repertoire of action in Egypt: origins and appropriation by different players

0490051 - OÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Steuer, Clément
The modularity of the ‘revolutionary’ repertoire of action in Egypt: origins and appropriation by different players.
Social Movement Studies. Roč. 17, č. 1 (2018), s. 113-118. ISSN 1474-2837. E-ISSN 1474-2829
Institutional support: RVO:68378009
Keywords : Egypt * labor movement * modularity * repertoire of action * revolution * youth movement
OECD category: Sociology
Impact factor: 2.000, year: 2018

The Egyptian ‘revolutionary’ repertoire of action, that is to say the repertoire used by the protesters of January 2011, was characterized by a combination of several features: occupation of a symbolic place, ‘horizontal’ forms of organization, recourse to new electronic information and communication technologies (especially social networks), and rhetoric centered around universal values such as dignity, social justice, human rights, and democracy. This repertoire was born as a result of the merging of two parallel cycles of mobilization, which had actually started during the previous decade, one animated by activists from the educated middle class, and the other by workers struggling for economic and social reforms. After the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, it demonstrated its extreme modularity, being appropriated by different players from all sections of the political spectrum, from the Salafist hāzimūn to proponents of the military power.
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