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Policing January 25: Protest, Tactics, and Territorial Control in Egypt's 2011 Uprising
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Abstract On January 25th, 2011 thousands of protesters took to the streets of major cities in Egypt - referred to as the "day of wrath" - to express their grievances and frustration with the ruling regime, ultimately leading to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak after three decades in power. The street, a... mehr
On January 25th, 2011 thousands of protesters took to the streets of major cities in Egypt - referred to as the "day of wrath" - to express their grievances and frustration with the ruling regime, ultimately leading to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak after three decades in power. The street, as a socially constructed space of discontent, had become the central locus of political change. In this paper, I will tackle the question of how and why policing strategies in Cairo failed to contain protesters, eventually leading to the withdrawal of security forces on January 28th. I will analyze the interactions between security forces and protesters in protest events during the uprising, focusing on policing strategies, tactical repertoires, and spaces of resistance. Through this, I hope to offer a way of looking at the politics of territorialization and space production in protest, and by extension, the negotiation of power relations between authority and resistance actors.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Protest; soziale Bewegung; Widerstand; sozialer Raum; politischer Wandel; Polizei; Ägypten; arabische Länder; Nahost
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Tactical Repertoires; Revolt
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 170-182
Zeitschriftentitel
Middle East - Topics & Arguments (2015) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2015.4.2669
ISSN
2196-629X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)