Contested Legitimacies: Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt

Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction
History in the Making
Interactionist Approaches and the Arab Uprisings
The Egyptian Revolution as the Result of a Hegemonic Crisis
Political Subjectivation and the Emergence of New Contentious Alliances
Situating this Project
References
2. Conceptual Choices and Theoretical Framework
Players and Arenas
Contentious Interaction at Critical Junctures
Making Events Transformative
A Discourse Theoretical Perspective on Contentious Politics
References
3. Brothers and Rebels
The Polarization of Egyptian Society
Rebellion against Mursi
The June 30 Uprising
A Crisis of Legitimacy
References
4. Coup and Anti-Coup
From Government to Opposition
The Constitution of the Anti-Coup Alliance as a Political Player
Constructing the Antagonist Other
The Republican Guard Massacre
A Popular Mandate for Repression
Setting Course for Violence
References
5. Myths and Martyrs
The Making of a Massacre
The Rabaa Salute
The Rabaa Martyrs
Backlash to the Rabaa Massacre
Tactical Adaptation
Discursive Path Dependencies
References
6. New Sheriff in Town
Anti-Coup Resistance from Abroad
Victors’ Justice
The Rehabilitation of the Armed Forces
Shrinking Spaces
A Winning Formula for Popular Support
References
7. A Tale of Two Islands
Reshaping the Protest Arena
The Limits of Securitization
The Popular Campaign to Protect the Land
Turning the Nationalist Discourse Inside Out
Harnessing the Memory of January 25 for Coalition Building
References
8. Conclusion and Implications
Autocratic Restoration through the Lenses of Contentious Politics
From a Relational to an Interactionist Perspective on Protest and Repression
Conceptualizing the Discursive Arena of Contentious Politics
Prospects for Resistance in Egypt
References
Appendix
Combining Protest Event and Discourse Analyses in a Nested Research Design
Event Data and their Limitations
Political Discourse Analysis
Source Selection
Data Collection and Ethical Dilemmas
References
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 1 Trajectory of Anti-Coup protests and state repression
Figure 2 Antagonist frontier in the Anti-Coup discourse
Figure 3 Construction of legitimacy and corresponding Anti-Coup action strategy
Figure 4 Construction of antagonist other in the Anti-Coup discourse
Figure 5 The coup as a mirror image of the Anti-Coup resistance
Figure 6 Construction of antagonist other after the Republican Guard Massacre
Figure 7 Evolution of Anti-Coup demands in response to repression
Figure 8 Construction of antagonist other after Mandate Friday
Figure 9 The Rabaa salute
Figure 10 Construction of the moral qualities of the Anti-Coup protesters
Figure 11 Construction of the moral corruption of the coup forces
Figure 12 Political violence throughout the protest cycle
Figure 13 Impact of transformative events on protest turnout
Figure 14 Impact of transformative events on protest rates
Figure 15 Timing of the Anti-Coup protests
Figure 16 Impact of leadership decapitation on protest frequency
Figure 17 Evolution of the Anti-Coup repertoire
Figure 18 PCPL protest rate and turnout
Figure 19 Repression of PCPL protest events
Figure 20 PCPL protest repertoire
Figure 21 Meaning of the island deal in the PCPL discourse
Figure 22 Tiran and Sanafir as a bridge between revolutionary and nationalist discourses
Figure 23 Antagonist frontier in the PCPL discourse
Figure 24 Nested research design
Figure 25 Temporal fixation of meaning in a discourse
Figure 26 Alternative fixation of meaning based on identical signifiers
Tables
Table 1 List of Anti-Coup miliuniya protests, Fridays highlighted
Table 2 Comparison between official casualty figures and Wiki Thawra
Table 3 Key terminology of discourse theory