The anti-Morsi coup recycled 2011 revolutionary signifiers

Evidence

In April 2013, a movement called Tamarod—“Rebellion”—appeared in Egypt, collecting signatures to call for the end of the Mohamed Morsi presidency. They were clearly drawing on the repertoire of revolutionary associations developed in 2011—they presented themselves as a youth-led, grassroots, digitally coordinated uprising—and they collected a whole lot of signatures, very fast. With an official spokesman in Mahmoud Badr, an activist since the days of Kefaya, or “Enough,” they appealed to revolutionaries as well as secular elites, and charged Morsi with overstepping his power to impose conservative religion on the country. Erdoğan quickly took Morsi’s side. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 341

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Counter-hegemony works by reattaching emptied signifiers to their original meanings. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 367; Revolutionary rhetoric can mask active counterrevolutionary alliances; The word revolution has been devalued to mean any trivial change or mere coup — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1463

Broader Connections

• Revolutionary rhetoric can mask active counterrevolutionary alliances #exemplifies (0.86)
• The word revolution has been devalued to mean any trivial change or mere coup #expands (0.78) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1463
• Counter-hegemony works by reattaching emptied signifiers to their original meanings. #complicates (0.75) — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 367