Soft spoken Daniel Navarone said very little about his past. Of a wife he had lost. Of a job he had left. Of a life that was changed completely. He pretended to be content living a simple life in Gilmore, working as a mechanic, raising his three kids and bowling once a week with an old army buddy. Balestrini ran the city of Gilmore like clockwork; from the inside and with very little trouble. It was his town and he knew how to keep it that way. What he didn't know was how to stop a thorn-in-his-side known only as le Saint; a person who kept people's hopes alive... Hope that there would one day be freedom from the town's tyrant.
This book examines Egypt’s turbulent and contradictory political period (2011-2015) as key to understanding contemporary politics in the country and the developments in the Arab region after the mass protests in 2010/11, more broadly. In doing so, it breaks new ground in the study of political representation, providing analytical innovation to the study of disenchantment with politics, democracy fatigue and social cohesion. Based on five years of intense fieldwork, the author provides rare insights into local and national ideas on politics, justice and identity, and on how people situate themselves and Egypt in the regional and global context. It analyzes how the creation of an alternate, political system was discussed and negotiated among the Egyptian population, the military, the government, public figures, the media, and international actors, and yet nevertheless today, Egypt has a new political regime that is the most repressive in the countries’ modern history. Finally, it recalls the emotions and perceptions of individuals and collectives and interlinks these local perspectives to national events and developments through time. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of democratization and authoritarianism, Middle East Studies, political representation and informality, collective action, and more broadly to cultural studies and international relations.
Soft spoken Daniel Navarone said very little about his past. Of a wife he had lost. Of a job he had left. Of a life that was changed completely. He pretended to be content living a simple life in Gilmore, working as a mechanic, raising his three kids and bowling once a week with an old army buddy. Balestrini ran the city of Gilmore like clockwork; from the inside and with very little trouble. It was his town and he knew how to keep it that way. What he didn't know was how to stop a thorn-in-his-side known only as le Saint; a person who kept people's hopes alive... Hope that there would one day be freedom from the town's tyrant.
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