The Collective Dream

This book links two seminal moments in Egypt's history the Revolution of 25 th January 2011 and the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser through various cultural manifestations. It conceives the concept of collective dreaming to map out the subliminal feeling which runs deep through experiences of socially transformative moments. The author has extensively studied the structure of feelings that encompasses the experiences not only of activist minorities but the broader mass of revolutionary movements. In certain historical moments, hopes and aspirations bind together millions of people from all walks of life: students, workers, farmers, and middle-class professionals. Nagaty calls this phenomenon the collective dream, something which has been carried through generations of Egyptians. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of social movement studies, cultural studies and cultural sociology.

Analyses how revolutions feel through the cultural expressions of experiencing social transformation Provides a people's history of Gamal Abdel Nasser's era, the Aswan High Dam and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Presents the theory of the collective dream via a story of shared attachments to a better life

Auteur
Sarah Nagaty holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the UCP, Lisbon and the University of Copenhagen, having previously been a researcher at the Library of Alexandria, Egypt.

Contenu
Part I. Introduction.- Conceptual Framework.- Part II. Getting Attached to the Better Life.- Attunement: My Sweat is Sown into the Rocks.- Temporality of Attachment: Wipe it off and I Will Paint Again.- Part III The Afterlife of Attachment.- As If I Were Faithless: Attachment to Attachment.- Is There a Life After the 25th of January?.- Conclusion.- Appendix 1 Timeline of Modern Egypt pre-2011.- Appendix 2 Timeline of Modern Egypt, 2011today.