Author's Department
Sociology, Egyptology & Anthropology Department
Find in your Library
https://doi.org/10.14506/CA39.1.07
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Cultural Anthropology
Publication Date
1-1-2024
doi
10.14506/CA39.1.07
Abstract
In this article I present experiences of Egyptians too young to have taken part in the street protests and movement of the 2011 revolution. Today in their early twenties, they narrate their experiences during the early months of the uprising. None claimed to be revolutionaries then or now, but the revolution seems to animate them in complex and long-lasting ways. The January revolution failed to bring about change at the level of state power. Yet more is at stake than the political endgame. I turn my attention to how people narrate the revolution as a process of ethical reflection and self-formation through everyday relationships and settings that took on new meanings. These accounts challenge notions of what it means to participate in a revolution and where it is located and generate a conversation between the anthropology of ethics and the anthropology of revolutions.
First Page
146
Last Page
169
Recommended Citation
APA Citation
Aly, R.
(2024). The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School. Cultural Anthropology, 39(1), 146–169.
https://doi.org/10.14506/CA39.1.07
MLA Citation
Aly, Ramy
"The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School." Cultural Anthropology, vol. 39, no. 1, 2024, pp. 146–169.
https://doi.org/10.14506/CA39.1.07
Comments
Article. Record derived from SCOPUS.