On the road to revolution

Chazli, Youssef El; Cooper, Jasper

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“…Based on participant observation and interviews, some studies have employed this approach to analyse 2010s mobilisations, such as the Egyptian revolution, Indignados in Spain, the Maidan movement in Ukraine or the Nuit Debout and Yellow Vests in France (El Chazli, 2012;Goujon andShukan, 2015, Smaoui, 2017;Reungoat et al, 2020).…”

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Ordinary citizens and political crises: The Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement (2019-2020)

Serrano Moreno

2023

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This study focuses on the actions and perceptions of individuals who participated in the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong initiated in April 2019 and interrupted by the covid 19 pandemic and the adoption of the National Security Law in June 2020. Based on semi-structured interviews, the article explains how ordinary citizens and first-time activists helped shape a political crisis and how it changed their political perceptions. The study adopts a theoretical perspective inspired by studies of collective action in contexts of political crises, placing the individual at the centre of the analysis and adopting a situational and processual approach. The findings show that the actors perceived themselves as protagonists of historical events produced by the authoritarian turn of the Hong Kong political system thanks to the appropriation of new identities, the radicalisation of their liberal values and the mobilisation of their previous skills and resources.

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Ordinary citizens and political crises: The Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement (2019-2020)

Serrano Moreno

2023

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Egypt in a Time of Revolution

Ketchley

2017

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This book considers the diverse forms of mass mobilization and contentious politics that emerged during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its aftermath. Drawing on a catalogue of more than 8,000 protest events, as well as interviews, video footage and still photographs, Neil Ketchley provides the first systematic account of how Egyptians banded together to overthrow Husni Mubarak, and how old regime forces engineered a return to authoritarian rule. Eschewing top-down, structuralist and culturalist explanations, the author shows that the causes and consequences of Mubarak's ousting can only be understood by paying close attention to the evolving dynamics of contentious politics witnessed in Egypt since 2011. Setting these events within a larger social and political context, Ketchley sheds new light on the trajectories and legacies of the Arab Spring, as well as recurring patterns of contentious collective action found in the Middle East and beyond.

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Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia

Erpyleva

2023

Am J Cult Sociol

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A biographical approach in social science is usually applied to study the life courses of a particular group of people or to explain individual action and meaning-making through biographical determinants. This article aims to develop the biographical approach by showing how it can be used to explain changes in political culture resulting from protest events. Using the case of post-protest local activism in Russia as an example, it demonstrates that a focus on activists’ biographies allows researchers to better understand how the nationwide protest event of 2011–12 changed the political culture of local activism. By focusing on biography, researchers can discover a very important feature of a protest event: its ability to make possible the meeting of people with biographical trajectories that would ordinarily take them in different directions. Consequently, events create opportunities for bringing opposite meanings, skills, and schemes of action together, thereby, allowing a cultural change to emerge. The article suggests that the proposed explanatory model develops biographical sociology by giving biography more power, informs the sociology of event, social movement studies, and political culture theories.

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On the road to revolution

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Ordinary citizens and political crises: The Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement (2019-2020)

Ordinary citizens and political crises: The Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement (2019-2020)

Egypt in a Time of Revolution

Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia

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