Emotion and Affect within the Context of Authoritarian Transformations in Egypt and Turkey (C01)

• Subject Area: Political Science
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721

The project analyses the affective and emotional dynamics of (re)emerging authoritarian rule in Egypt and Turkey. We ask how ruling elites appropriate the protests 2011/13 and re-read the transformative Midān Moments for the legitimation of their power. We start from the assumption that this struggle about the political heritage of the protests has material, symbolic and emotional-affective dimensions. We focus on how the ruling elites have turned the societal spirit of optimism of the squares into polarization and hate. Empirically, we look into interventions in the urban space, repression, nationalistic discourses and the discourse about “the war on terror”.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Cilja Harders