R. Roccu

The Political Economy of the Egyptian Revolution (eBook, PDF)

Mubarak, Economic Reforms and Failed Hegemony

• Format: PDF

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137395924
• Artikelnr.: 45972547

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Introduction - Bread, dignity, social justice and economic reforms 1. A Gramscian approach to the study of the political economy of reforms 2. The Egyptian way to neoliberalism? IMF, World Bank and reforms in Egypt 3. Of success and greed: the new business class turns into capitalist oligarchy 4. Ideology resurgent? Neoliberalism as economic-corporate project for the few 5. From hubris to debris: global crisis and the end of the Mubarak regime Conclusion: Gramsci, failed hegemony and the fall of Mubarak Postscript: Back to square one? Considerations on Egypt's uncertain future

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"By looking at Gramsci through a sophisticated and less usual political economy lens, Roccu has written a brilliant and convincing reconstruction of the short-lived honeymoon between Egyptian elites and neoliberalism in the 2000s. This book offers a fresh perspective from which to understand some of the reasons behind Mubarak's fall in 2011 as well as some suggestions for reading the most recent events in Egypt." - Gennaro Gervasio, British University in Egypt

"This is a fluently written and convincing account of the ways in which neoliberalism plays itself out through the structures of the Egyptian state. Dr Roccu's confident and authoritative use of a Gramscian perspective to examine and explain the unraveling of Mubarak's political hegemony casts new light on the causes of the uprising of 2011. At the same time, it serves as a reminder of the lasting importance of Gramsci's thought. This is all the more necessary as the turmoil and violence of Egyptian politics continue to illuminate the troubled conditions of decayed hegemony." - Charles Tripp, SOAS, University of London, UK