The Ends of Revolution: Rethinking Ideology and Time in the Arab Uprisings

Haugbølle, Sune; Bandak, Andreas

doi:10.1080/19436149.2017.1334304

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“…The gains of 2011-2012 had already been rescinded by 2014-2015, and other, surviving institutional changes do not seem to be connected to the revolution. The cases, indeed miscellaneous, presented here could represent good examples of the overall failure of the translation of social mobilization into structural change, as discussed, for example, by Sune Haugbolle and Andreas Bandak (2017).…”

Section: Conclusion: What Does An Institutional Lens Tells Us About Cmentioning

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Seeing Social Change Through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011–2018

Cantini

2021

Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation

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This chapter explores the possibilities offered by the ethnographic study of institutions when addressing the question of social change, taking Egyptian universities during the revolution and its aftermath as case study. Discussing how different actors address the issue of change, the chapter cautions against adopting explanatory schemes too easily, particularly when building narratives. Instead, it suggests looking at institutional constraints to see how contradictory and overlapping notions of change are created, enforced, and contested across competing networks of power, both during an uprising and in times of political repression. Furthermore, it shows how changes in an institution can reveal hints of transformation processes in the broader society. This chapter offers an alternative reading of the revolutionary changes that transformed the country in and after 2011. Focusing on two major perspectives on the change in Egypt’s higher education sector the article discusses some of the complexities of accounting for change through an institutional lens. The first, coming from those more actively involved in the 2011 revolution, is one of struggle, emancipatory will, and depression and silence as a consequence of the 2013 backlash. The second perspective stems from state-sponsored programs promoting higher education as a globally competitive object, subject to reform and geared toward innovation and quality. As a consequence of these different perspectives the university has become the site of a major battle between forces competing for power within society, demonstrating how such metanarratives of change shape the temporalities according to which university actors consider their action. By combining participatory observation, interviews, and the study of documents stating internal university regulations and reform programs, the author shows the importance of universities as privileged sites for the implementation of change, uncovering balances of power, beyond slogans and discourses.

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Section: Conclusion: What Does An Institutional Lens Tells Us About Cmentioning

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Seeing Social Change Through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011–2018

Cantini

2021

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“…Perhaps this similarity between the Marxist model and the Egyptian case (their shared understanding of the future) becomes more visible when one compares them with revolutionary instances that are not based on the notion of a future horizon of change (e.g., see Haugbolle and Bandak 2017). Take, for instance, Ross Porter's study of the Yemeni revolution of 2011.…”

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Anthropologies of Revolution

Cherstich¹,

Holbraad²

2020

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Conclusion. Worlds in Revolution References Index vii Acknowled gmentsThis book is the outcome of "Comparative Anthropology of Revolutionary Politics" (CARP), a five-year research project dedicated to developing a distinctively anthropological understanding of revolutions. The project was funded by a Consolidator grant of the European Research Council (ERC-2013-CoG, 617970, CARP) and led by Martin Holbraad at University College London from 2014 to 2019. For catalytic discussions on the anthropology of revolutions during the early stages of the book's development, we wish to thank Narges Ansari, Myriam Lamrani, and Charlotte Loris-Rodionoff, who were members of the project's core research team alongside the three of us. For illuminating discussions at various stages of the book's development, as well as for advice on relevant literature, we thank David Burrows,

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“…The study of the political anatomy of the everyday, for instance, bears important theoretical repercussions when major events, such as the revolts that have erupted in the MENA region since late 2010, 11 come to disrupt the normative condition of power. Alain Badiou, for instance, argues that an 'Event' is the appearance of a complete new ontological dimension that breaks completely with previous experiences of life.…”

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Guest Editor’s Introduction: Sketches of the Everyday

Capasso

2018

Middle East Critique

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The Ends of Revolution: Rethinking Ideology and Time in the Arab Uprisings

Cited by 39 publications

References 16 publications

Seeing Social Change Through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011–2018

Seeing Social Change Through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011–2018

Anthropologies of Revolution

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Sketches of the Everyday

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