Mass Politics and Anti-Colonial Revolutions in the Middle East

Ingraham 206
UW-Madison
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm 

Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford) re-examines one of the key features of British colonialism – the building of infrastructure – and explores how this shaped the possibilities of anti-colonial revolution. Focusing on the 1919 Revolution in Egypt, he explores how Egyptians creatively repurposed the material circuitries of British colonial rule to launch mass protests calling for national liberation. Ketchley demonstrates how the infrastructure of the colonial state and economy powerfully enabled and delimited the first mass participation revolution in the MENA region’s history.

Neil Ketchley is Associate Professor in Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His first book, Egypt in a Time of Revolution (CUP 2017), won the Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award. Results of his research have appeared in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis. For the current academic year, he is a Mid-Career Fellow of the British Academy and an associate researcher at the Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ) in Cairo, Egypt.

Cosponsored by European Studies.

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