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Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Jeffrey C. Alexander examines what was new about Egypt's Spring revolution. Why was it so compelling to watch, and what made it so effective and does it have implications for democratic movements internationally. Using international news reports and translations of the social media pages that brought Egyptians flocking onto Tahrir Square, Alexander uncovers the narrative of a revolution that was scripted by its organizers, as both a moral statement and a media and digital statement. He sees it as a ... Read more
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Jeffrey C. Alexander examines what was new about Egypt's Spring revolution. Why was it so compelling to watch, and what made it so effective and does it have implications for democratic movements internationally. Using international news reports and translations of the social media pages that brought Egyptians flocking onto Tahrir Square, Alexander uncovers the narrative of a revolution that was scripted by its organizers, as both a moral statement and a media and digital statement. He sees it as a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
138
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780930459
SKU
V9781780930459
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About Jeffrey C. Alexander
Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lilian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. His most recent book was The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power (2010).
Reviews for Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power
Jeffrey Alexander's book on the Egyptian revolution is a masterpiece of cultural sociology. He looks at the unfolding drama and examines how individual remarks and statments were shaped into a representation of collective expression in a wide variety of media. He makes us understand how revolutions unfold within societies that become 'subjectivized' through the invention of new represntations about themselves ... Read more