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SUMMARY:Sherene Seikaly: Egypt’s Bread Intifada
DESCRIPTION:CALIFORNIA\n\nSherene Seikaly (University of California\, Santa
  Barbara) “Egypt’s Bread Intifada: On the Subject of the People”\n\n
 Over the last four years of upheaval in the Arab world\, the notion of “
 the people\,” Egyptian and otherwise\, has proven profoundly resilient. 
 It is these “people”—as individuals and a collective—that are prob
 lematically celebrated as subjects finally fulfilling their long-awaited d
 estiny\; dismissed as passive objects duped by external forces and incapab
 le of politics\; or incited against as dangerous masses capable of destroy
 ing the nation. In returning to this historical moment of the “Bread Int
 ifada\,” of 1977 this project interrupts the narrative resilience of the
  alternating sleep and wakefulness of the Egyptian\, and more broadly the 
 Arab people. “A Protest of the Poor” engages 18-19 January 1977 as a m
 oment of politics and popular sovereignty. In doing so it challenges ‘wh
 o and what’ counts as political. In mapping the role food played in prot
 estors’ and government strategies and demands\, “A Protest of the Poor
 \,” examines how basic needs function as a trigger of social upheaval as
  well as a vehicle of political containment. Through the examination of ho
 w poverty and hunger figure into politics\, this project reveals contempor
 ary critiques of the open door policy. It explores how government official
 s\, journalists\, and protestors defined and ultimately contained the “p
 oor” and the “hungry.” More importantly\, by attending to how protes
 tors narrate and represent themselves and the tools they used to make thei
 r claims\, this project troubles the construction of the “people.” In 
 so doing\, it explores continuity and rupture between 1977 and 2011.\n\nSh
 erene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of history at the University of Calif
 ornia\, Santa Barbara. She is the co-editor of the Arab Studies Journal\, 
 and co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya e-zine. Seikaly’s Men\n\n\n\n o
 f Capital in Times of Scarcity: Economy in Palestine (Stanford University
  Press\, forthcoming) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British col
 onial officials used economy to shape territory\, nationalism\, the home\,
  and the\n\n[Co-sponsored by CDDRL's Program on Arab Reform and Democracy 
 and Arab Studies Institute]\n\n&nbsp\;
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