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Contesting the Repressive State - Why Ordinary Egyptians Protested During the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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Contesting the Repressive State - Why Ordinary Egyptians Protested During the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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Looking at political mobilization in the years leading up to the
2011 Egyptian Revolution, one can notice a stark disparity between
the number of people who participated in online organizing and the
number of individuals who protested in the streets. During one
silent demonstration organized by the We are all Khaled Said
Facebook page in 2010, when the numbers in the streets were
limited, one activist posted, "Where are the people who said they
were coming? Where are the 10,000 men and women?" For years prior
to the Arab Spring, opposition activists in Egypt organized
protests with limited success. So why and how did thousands of
Egyptian citizens suddenly take to the streets against the Mubarak
regime in January 2011? Contesting the Repressive State not only
answers this question, but asks specifically why and how people who
are not part of political movements choose to engage or not engage
in anti-government protest under repressive regimes. The central
argument is that individuals are rational actors and their
decisions to protest or not protest are based on the intersection
of three factors: political opportunity structures, mobilizing
structures, and framing processes (or the way in which the media
presents particular issues). In turn, specific situations and
frames trigger emotion in people, and it is this emotion that
drives people to protest. Each chapter looks at a different facet
of the revolutionary process (grievances, online participation,
media framing, government violence) and identifies a relationship
between key structural factors in each and the emotional responses
they produce. Contesting the Repressive State is based on 170
interviews conducted in Egypt, during the Arab Spring, both with
people who participated in street protests and those who did not.
Ultimately, Kira D. Jumet explores how social media, violent
government repression, changes in political opportunities, and the
military influenced individual decisions to protest or not protest.
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