Thesis
'Creative Practice and Hegemonised Thought - a Critical Mobilisation Studies Perspective on the 2011 Egyptian Revolution'
How can we understand the immense power and simultaneous ephemerality of revolutionary mass mobilisation in Egypt 2011? Present approaches in Social Movement Studies focus on causal anteriorities to explain mobilisation and consequently struggle to account for the rapidity of the emergence and fracturing of mass mobilisation in this case. My research attempts to view such structural antecedents (economic reforms, the build-up of anti-Mubarak movements, etc.) rigorously as conditions of possibility rather than causes. It interprets these factors as part of processes of hegemonic contractions that opened spaces for the emergence of autonomous agency, but also highlights fields – especially intellectual labour – that remained largely hegemonsied. An ethnographic study of the dynamics of emergence and cohesion of mass mobilisation during the 2011 Egyptian revolution aims at developing new categories for the study of spontaneously creative collective agency. It seeks to locate casual explanation in the moment of mobilisation itself, understood as an eventful temporality.
Supervisor: Dr John Chalcraft
Research interests
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Collective Action (Emergence and Coherence)
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Contentious Politics (Social Movements; Popular Mobilisation; Revolution)
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Praxis
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Creative Agency
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Spontaneism
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De-Structuring
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Intellectual Labour
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Structuration
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Hegemony
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Power
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Event
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Temporality
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Historical Sociology
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Social Theory
Publications
'The Egyptian Revolution between Inclusiveness and Disintegration – A Gramscian perspective', paper presented at the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, August 2015, Prague
'Corporate Social Responsibility: A perspective from Weberian economic sociology', Universität Witten/Herdecke discussion papers, Nr. 22/2012
'Annäherung ans neue Ägypten', Internationale Politik, no. 01/2012, Sonderbeilage ‘Verantwortung Weltweit 2012’, pp. 14-15
'Corporate Social Responsibility: Fundamentalstellung für Kapitalismus und Wirtschaftssoziologie' Universität Witten/Herdecke discussion papers, Nr. 17/2011
Teaching
'Theories and Problems of Nationalism', Teaching Assistant, London School of Economics and Political Science, full academic year 2015/16, 2 seminar classes
'Social Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice', External lecturer, Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty for Economics and Management, 3 day block seminar for BA students, 8 ECTS-credits
Contact
Email: J.Boeddeling@lse.ac.uk
Website: http://lse.academia.edu/JannBoeddeling