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Etatism Etatism
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Passive Revolution Passive Revolution
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Capital and Class Capital and Class
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Rational State Planning, Ideology, and Modern Power Rational State Planning, Ideology, and Modern Power
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People and Land under Reclamation People and Land under Reclamation
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Planning the National Family Planning the National Family
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7 Etatism: Theorizing Egypt's 1952 Revolution
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Published:October 2007
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Abstract
Egypt achieved nominal independence from Britain in 1922, and full independence in 1936 with the signing of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, yet its postcoloniality presumably began in 1952 when a revolution led by Gamal Abdel Nasser broke out. This chapter argues that Egyptian history from the 1930s to the 1960s is part of a single historical bloc. It proposes an alternative framework, dubbed the “social-welfare mode of regulation,” for understanding the organization of the postcolonial Egyptian state and society. This social-welfare mode of regulation, underpinned by an economic system of etatism, is premised upon the state apparatus as arbiter of both economic development and social welfare. The chapter considers the new modes of governance, expertise, and social knowledge that defined a particular era of nationalist politics. It rejects an interpretation of Nasserism that focuses on populism and analyzes the extent to which Nasserism was based on an assemblage of institutional apparatuses, technocratic practices, and modes of knowledge production.
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