Full Description
This book examines the connection between affects, mobilisation, and political transformation. Offering unique insights into the affective and emotional dynamics of occupied Tahrir and Taksim Squares, this book builds a novel understanding of urban mass protests and their capacity to "travel" across time and space. Its Midān Moment concept breaks new ground in affect and emotion studies with a focus on political transformation in Egypt and Turkey. It is based on empirically grounded research which covers the 2011 and 2013 uprisings and their authoritarian aftermath.
This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in affect and emotion studies in a range of disciplinary areas, including political science, sociology, anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
Contents
1. Introduction; Affect, Mobilization, Midān Moments: Conceptual Reflections; 2. Midān Moments and Political Transformation; 3. Affect and Mobilization: A Conversation with Deborah Gould; The Affective Dynamics of the Occupations; 4. The Revolution Cannot be Unfelt: An Affective Reading of Tahrir 2011; 5. Revisiting the Promises and Inspirations of Turkey's Gezi Uprisings through an Affective Reading of Collective Action; 6. The Limits of an Encounter: When the Çapulcu Met the "Terrorist"; Midān Moments traveling in Time and Space; 7. The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police; 8. "(Re)creating a New Gezi": The Affective Politics of Saying No to the Presidential System in the Aftermath of Popular Uprisings; A Decade Later: Affect, Memory and Political Transformation; 9. "What, There Was a Revolution?" Defeat, Mythology, and Continuity in Egypt After 2011; 10. Virtual Geography and Thresholds of Memory: Remembering the Gezi Event; 11. Flashes of Revolutionary Times: The University as a Meshwork of Hope, Despair and Endurance
