CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | McKeever, David |
|---|---|
| Title | The Logic of Revolt: Populist Discourse in Tahrir Square |
| Summary | Research into the role of discourse in revolutions could provide more nuanced insights into the social processes and causal mechanisms comparative studies have unearthed in revolutions. This study attempts to explain one revolution at this level of analysis, the Egyptian revolution of January and February 2011. Relying on concepts from Laclau’s discourse theory the paper seeks to explain the processes internal to revolution. The thesis explores the logical process by which protesters demands came to have an effect. Through analysis of the origins of the revolution, its violence and the regime’s tactics the study concludes that protesters demands formed a discourse of populism centred on the logical construction of a symbolic people. These findings call into question the role of the military as a primary explanatory factor. |
| Supervisor | Sgier, Lea |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/mckeever_david.pdf |
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