Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate and inspect the causes that prevented the (marginalised and isolated) society of Saʿid from rebelling against President Mubarak’s authoritarian regime, as the North did. Here I seek to present different interpretation of as-Saʿidiyya’s attitudes toward the 2011 uprising away from the Manichean ‘glorification’ versus ‘ignominy’, or ‘celebrating’ v. ‘contempt’ narrative that dominated the study of the Saʿid and as-Saʿidiyya role in the 2011 Arab uprising. My research is based on interviews, participant observation and ethnographic investigation which articulates the behaviour of peasants as political actors in this time of turmoil, While most sociological and anthropological studies of revolutions concentrate on cities and urban areas, this article focuses on a small town, Madinat Al-Fikriyya, and village, Munshaʿiat Al-Fikriyya in Al-Minya governate in Upper Egypt. Therefore, to understand the role of as-Saʿidiyya in the 2011 uprising, the article suggests three conceptual changes to this convention. Firstly, by putting peasantry communities within socio-political and socio-economic contexts; secondly by concentrating on understanding the dynamics of state-society relations, and lastly, exploring the role of security establishment and levels of penetration into the society in order.

摘要

本研究的目的是调查和检查阻止萨伊德（被边缘化和孤立的）社会像北方那样反抗穆巴拉克总统的专制政权的原因。在这里，我试图对 as-Saʿidiyya 对 2011 年起义的态度提出不同的解释，远离摩尼教的“荣耀”与“耻辱”，或“庆祝”与“蔑视”叙事，主导了对 Saʿid 和 as-Saʿidiyya 角色的研究在 2011 年的阿拉伯起义中。我的研究基于访谈、参与观察和民族志调查，这些研究阐明了农民在这个动荡时期作为政治参与者的行为，虽然大多数社会学和人类学革命研究都集中在城市和城市地区，但本文关注的是一个小镇， Madinat Al-Fikriyya 和村庄，Munshaʿiat Al-Fikriyya 位于上埃及的 Al-Minya 省。因此，为了理解 as-Saʿidiyya 在 2011 年起义中的作用，本文建议对该公约进行三个概念上的改变。首先，将农民社区置于社会政治和社会经济环境中；二是着力理解国家与社会关系的动态，最后是有序探索安全建设的作用和对社会的渗透程度。