Egypt in the future tense : hope, frustration, and ambivalence before and after 2011
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011-2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of t...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Bloomington, IN Indianapolis : Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa Ser. |
| Schlagworte: | Egyptians Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011- Egypt -- Rural conditions -- 21st century Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century Egyptians -- Political activity -- 21st century Egypt -- Politics and government -- 21st century Jugend Landbevölkerung Frömmigkeit Egypt ; History ; Protests, 2011- mehr... |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (490 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Against the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011-2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in their daily lives, and how they make sense of the existential anxieties and stalled expectations that inevitably accompany such hopes. Drawing on many years of study in Egypt and the life stories of rural, lower-middle-class men before and after the revolution, Schielke views recent events in ways that are both historically deep and personal. Sc |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource (490 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780253015891 0253015898 9780253015846 0253015847 9780253015877 0253015871 |