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فيديو – هبة رءوف في واشنطن

فيديو – هبة رءوف في واشنطن

Paper Presentation: “Politics of Informality: On the Power of the Public Spheres of Egypt” with Heba Raouf from ACMCU on Vimeo.

While politics has long been studied from a modernist systemic approach, sociology has been trying to relate the form to relations of power, and ideologies have addressed power and thought as being in a dialectical multi-dimensional relation. Yet even the shift from old to new social movements did not grasp the emergence of a new rationale of political agency. Informality is a concept that needs to be introduced here to allow better understanding of the political in its different manifestations and transformations. Dr. Raouf discussed how the Egyptian revolution can be approached through the lenses of informality, how the old social movements paved the way to new ones, and how the moment of change crystallized through informal actions.