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This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian
revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the
mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores
the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring
afterlives of anticolonial politics, connected to questions of
nationalism, military rule, capitalist development and violence,
are central to understanding political events in Egypt today.
Through an imagined conversation between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz
Fanon, two foundational theorists of anti-capitalism and
anticolonialism, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt focuses on issues
of resistance, revolution, mastery and liberation to show how the
Nasserist project, created by Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Free
Officers in 1952, remains the only instance of hegemony in modern
Egyptian history. In suggesting that Nasserism was made possible
through local, regional and global anticolonial politics, even as
it reproduced colonial ways of governing that continue to
reverberate into Egypt's present, this interdisciplinary study
thinks through questions of traveling theory, global politics, and
resistance and revolution in the postcolonial world.
This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian
revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the
mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores
the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring
afterlives of anticolonial politics, connected to questions of
nationalism, military rule, capitalist development and violence,
are central to understanding political events in Egypt today.
Through an imagined conversation between Antonio Gramsci and Frantz
Fanon, two foundational theorists of anti-capitalism and
anticolonialism, Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt focuses on issues
of resistance, revolution, mastery and liberation to show how the
Nasserist project, created by Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Free
Officers in 1952, remains the only instance of hegemony in modern
Egyptian history. In suggesting that Nasserism was made possible
through local, regional and global anticolonial politics, even as
it reproduced colonial ways of governing that continue to
reverberate into Egypt's present, this interdisciplinary study
thinks through questions of traveling theory, global politics, and
resistance and revolution in the postcolonial world.
Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality's Critique of
Women's Studies and the Academy pushes back against the exclusive
scholarship and discourse coming out of women-centered spaces and
projects, which throw up barriers by narrowly defining who can
participate. Vehement resistance to using inclusive language and
renaming scholarly spaces like Women's Studies and Critical
Feminism expresses itself in concerns that women are still
oppressed and thus women-only spaces must be maintained. But who is
a woman? What are the characteristics of a woman's lived
experience? Do affinity and a history of oppression justify
exclusion? This book shows how intersectional feminism is often
underperformed and appropriated as a "woke" vocabulary by elite
women who are unwilling to do the necessary emotional work around
their privilege. As Trans Women, Femmes, Women of Color, Queer
Women, Gender Variant, and Gender Non-Conforming scholars emerge,
the heteronormative, cisgender, colonial idea of women and the
feminine is rapidly under attack. The contributors believe that to
engage in the necessary conversations about the oppressed
performing oppression is to disrupt the exclusionary basis of
monolithic understandings of the feminine. Only then can we advance
the coalition needed to forge a multiracial, multicultural,
queer-led, anti-imperialist feminism.
Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality's Critique of
Women's Studies and the Academy pushes back against the exclusive
scholarship and discourse coming out of women-centered spaces and
projects, which throw up barriers by narrowly defining who can
participate. Vehement resistance to using inclusive language and
renaming scholarly spaces like Women's Studies and Critical
Feminism expresses itself in concerns that women are still
oppressed and thus women-only spaces must be maintained. But who is
a woman? What are the characteristics of a woman's lived
experience? Do affinity and a history of oppression justify
exclusion? This book shows how intersectional feminism is often
underperformed and appropriated as a "woke" vocabulary by elite
women who are unwilling to do the necessary emotional work around
their privilege. As Trans Women, Femmes, Women of Color, Queer
Women, Gender Variant, and Gender Non-Conforming scholars emerge,
the heteronormative, cisgender, colonial idea of women and the
feminine is rapidly under attack. The contributors believe that to
engage in the necessary conversations about the oppressed
performing oppression is to disrupt the exclusionary basis of
monolithic understandings of the feminine. Only then can we advance
the coalition needed to forge a multiracial, multicultural,
queer-led, anti-imperialist feminism.
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