Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 238
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN
- 9780691162638
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Martyrs and Tricksters results from two years of fieldwork (2010-12) in the midst of Egypt’s January 25th Revolution, followed by seven years of writing and analysis. It is based on immersion in numerous political mobilisations and occupations, lengthy discussions with activists and political experts, and a substantial corpus of written and audiovisual material including social media, blogs, poetry, films, television, graffiti and speeches recorded in demonstrations. The book’s theoretical apparatus pioneers an anthropological approach to revolution as a liminal event that makes revolutionary martyrdom its primary mobilizational idiom, but also inadvertently creates ideal conditions for the emergence of political tricksters.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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