Antipredicative political affects and language in the post-revolution of urban Egypt

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Potyguara Alencar dos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/36553
• topic: Urban manifestations; Focused gathering; Antipredicative political affects; Post-revolution; Egypt; Manifestaciones urbanas; Reuniones concentradas; Trabajo en progreso; Post-revolución; Egipto; Manifestações urbanas; Reuniões concentradas; Work in progress; Pós-revolução; Egito

The text aims to produce analytical considerations on two forms of popular mobilization extending through the period known as ba?d al-tha?ra (the post-Egyptian Revolution of 25 January 2011): al-f?s – also known as "the debates" – and the brutust?t al-?ay (the neighborhood protests). The political potentiality of these modalities of manifestations is caught in the character here called work in progress of their experiences: their capacity for mobilization based on the valorization of the process of execution of the communicational acts and the spontaneity with which the participant collectives are formed. Taking these popular events in the form of concentrated meetings opens a reflection on the constitutive strangles they inspire among the inhabitants of the Cairota peripheries, as well as on the linguistic, affective and, above all, political identifications that enable them. The results reported here were based on an ethnographic incursion carried out between 2014 and 2015 by the city of Cairo and by villages in Lower Egypt, when the subject of youths and their expressive ways of communicating the time of the post-Revolution occupied the center of research interest.