ASIN: B07DTY7GHS
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 77
The way in which the crowd is constructed has been shown to be the site of power struggles between the status quo and political change. However, there is little qualitative research on how crowd members construct their experiences of participation in crowd activity. This study examines how the crowd in the Tahrir square sit-in during the 2011 Egyptian revolution was constructed by crowd members themselves. Based on semi-structured interviews with five Egyptian demonstrators regarding their experiences of this sit-in, a Foucauldian discourse analysis indicated that crowd members were subject to a set of discourses that served to normalise or problematise the crowd by constructing its processes as either compatible or problematic compared with the values of the neoliberal agenda respectively. Drawing on Foucault’s ideas on governmentality, the discursive repertoires available to crowd ...
