Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power - Softcover

Alexander, Jeffrey C.

 
9781780930459: Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power

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Why was Egypt's Spring revolution so compelling and so effective? This brilliant essay uncovers the narrative of the revolution - as a theatrical performance enacted on Tahrir Square, with a moral purpose but also a communicative logic in demonstrating what a civil, egalitarian society might look like.

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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).

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