January Revolution: Critic Vision
by Amr Abdelrahman, Amr Adly, Mahmoud Hadhood and Aly El-Raggal
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This book looks through the question of “the historical horizon of January Revolution”; namely it follows the roots and the characteristics of the main and active powers in the revolution; studying their histories before 2011 to find out the limits of their potentials and historical horizon.
The book supposes that the revolution did not happen by coincidence. It has not evoluted and progressed, then retreated and defeated at random. This is understood and self-evident.
But in addition to, and based on, this axiom; the four authors present what can be described as the DNA profiling of the main actors in January, the DNA profiling that reveals the genetic trait, namely defines the nature and limits of options.
For example, the new capitalism that emerged in the late 1970s and participated in the governance one way or another under the umbrella of the project of power inheritance to Gamal Mubarak, whose spearhead was the Committee of Policies in the National Democratic Party – this capitalism rushed to put forth its demands and try to impose them. So, it merged in this context, due to the nature of the Egyptian political sphere, in a project of power inheritance with an authoritarian nature. This exactly what played a critical role in defining its situations and options after January.
Another example is the Muslim Brothers, who waged the turbulence of the revolution carrying a long history of “liability to otherness”, namely to isolation and marginalization as “others” that can be depicted -as said in a song- “they are people and we are people”. Those isolated Brothers, as opposite to the pressing powers to isolate them, entered in a mutual trajectory of exclusion and disengagement that ended with the catastrophic results we have witnessed.
That was also the case with the civil powers that introspected practices and crystalized a discourse of “wholly national” nature that included in its combination what allowed later the explosion of “statehood” that defined the period after June 2013.
At all these levels and fields, the book reveals the roots of January’s victories and defeats in the history previous to 2011, not with the logic of “historical determinism” but with the logic of potentials whose limits can be understood only through the deconstruction of the context and the history.
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- Publisher/Imprint El-Maraya for Cultural Production / El-Maraya
- Orginal LanguageArabic
- ISBN/Identifier 9789776648524
- Publication Country or regionEgypt
- FormatPaperback
- Pages164
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleArabic
- Original Language AuthorsArabic
- Edition2019
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions20*14 cm
- IllustrationGrey Scale
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