The Promise of the Revolution Three Years On : Egyptian Youth Working for the Butterfly Effect
(2015) MOSM03 20152Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
- Abstract
- This thesis explores the experience of being young, Egyptian, supportive of the 2011 revolution, and active in civil society in the post-revolutionary period in Cairo and Alexandria. It draws from 5 in-depth interviews, and aims to understand the reasons behind youth’s engagement in the revolution beyond the framework of youth economic exclusion. It looks into their expectations from the revolution, one the one hand, and their views on sociopolitical developments in Egypt on the other, and traces how these shape the participants’ experience and influence their civil society engagement. The data were approached using a mixed theoretical framework, which encompasses youthfulness (Bayat), habitus (Bourdieu), and a heuristic, as opposed of... (More)
- This thesis explores the experience of being young, Egyptian, supportive of the 2011 revolution, and active in civil society in the post-revolutionary period in Cairo and Alexandria. It draws from 5 in-depth interviews, and aims to understand the reasons behind youth’s engagement in the revolution beyond the framework of youth economic exclusion. It looks into their expectations from the revolution, one the one hand, and their views on sociopolitical developments in Egypt on the other, and traces how these shape the participants’ experience and influence their civil society engagement. The data were approached using a mixed theoretical framework, which encompasses youthfulness (Bayat), habitus (Bourdieu), and a heuristic, as opposed of analytic, use of social generations (Mannheim). The thesis identifies some aspects of continuity, and some of change, that influence the participants’ circumstances, and highlights expressions of their agency. (Less)
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- author
- Levkov, Lidija LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MOSM03 20152
- year
- 2015
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- youth, post-revolution, Egypt, youth exclusion, civic engagement, Egyptian revolution, generation
- language
- English
- id
- 8408710
- date added to LUP
- 2015-12-18 10:55:42
- date last changed
- 2015-12-18 10:55:42
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