Negotiating politics on campus: dynamic (de-)politicization among student activists in post-2011 Egypt.
This article examines processes of (de-) politicization among Egyptian student activists in the post-2011 context. Based on ethnographic observation, interviews and focus groups, I argue that the rapid and successive political changes – with the revolution in 2011 then the coup d'état in 2013 – made...
| Published in: | Social Movement Studies Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 788 - 812 |
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Sep-Nov2025
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