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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150290703321

Titolo

Youth activism in Egypt : Islamism, political protest and revolution / / edited by Ahmed Tohamy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2016

ISBN

9781350989900

1350989908

9780857728920

085772892X

9780857728098

0857728091

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

305.235

305.235096209051

Soggetti

Youth protest movements - Egypt

Youth - Political activity - Egypt

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Social Movements Theory -- Chapter 3: The State-Society Relationship and the Cycles of Rise and Decline the Youth Movement -- Chapter 4: Expanding Political Opportunities in Egypt -- Chapter 5: The Chronological Developments and Formal Structure of Corporatist Arrangements -- Chapter 6: Strategic Choices, Organization, Framing and Mobilizations: The Case of Student Activism -- Chapter 7: Strategic Choices, Organization, Framing and Mobilizations of the New Activism: The Case of the April 6 Movement -- Chapter 8: Using Social Movement Theory to Assess Egyptian Youth Movements: Opportunity, Mobilization, Strategies and Cultural Frames.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book, Ahmed Tohamy analyses the often-neglected trajectory that led up to the protests in Egypt that culminated in the fall of Hosni



Mubarak in February 2011. Tohamy's assertion is that by examining the decade preceding this momentous event, we see that the youth movement far from being inert was extremely active. Tohamy uses the Social Movements Theory to argue how Egyptian youth became a new agent of change in the Middle East. By positioning the youth activists as dynamically engaging with their social and political contexts within a framework of opportunities and constraints, his analysis strikes at the heart of the debates concerning the nature and substance of revolution and its effects on state and society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.