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Jeffrey Alexander's book on the Egyptian revolution is a masterpiece of cultural sociology. He looks at the unfolding drama and examines how individual remarks and statments were shaped into a representation of collective expression in a wide variety of media. He makes us understand how revolutions unfold within societies that become 'subjectivized' through the invention of new represntations about themselves and the world, within the framework of an effervescent collective action. * Farhard Khosrokhavar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France * Jeffrey C. Alexander's excellent Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power brings the dissonance between this performance and its deliverables to the fore. * LSE Review of Books *

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Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lilian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. His most recent book was The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power (2010).

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