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%T Policing January 25: Protest, Tactics, and Territorial Control in Egypt's 2011 Uprising %A Soudias, Dimitris %J Middle East - Topics & Arguments %N 4 %P 170-182 %D 2015 %K Tactical Repertoires; Revolt %@ 2196-629X %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2015-108-26698 %X 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. %C DEU %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info