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Researcher

Brecht De Smet

Awards & Distinctions

40 Results

2022

Lost in transitions? Feudalism, colonialism, and Egypt's blocked road to capitalism (1800–1920)

Jelle VersierenBrecht De Smet

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

2021

'Authoritarian resilience' as passive revolution : a Gramscian interpretation of counter-revolution in Egypt

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES

Luxemburg on Tahrir Square : reading the Arab revolutions with Rosa Luxemburg's The Mass Strike

Sami ZemniBrecht De SmetKoenraad Bogaert

Bookchapter in Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg

Putting the margins at the center : at the edges of protest in Morocco and Egypt

Brecht De SmetSoraya El Kahlaoui

A2 Journal Article in PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO

2020

The prince and the minotaur : Egypt in the labyrinth of counter-revolution

The strategies of fear, the commercialization of society, and the rise of the factory system in the Low Countries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Jelle VersierenBrecht De Smet

Bookchapter in Historicizing fear : ignorance, vilification, and othering

2019

Het Globale Zuiden heeft nood aan rechtvaardigheid, niet aan hulp

Koenraad BogaertBernard MazijnBrecht De SmetJulie CarlierMarlies Casier

Article in a magazine

‘Justice’ not ‘aid’ for the Global South

Koenraad BogaertJulie CarlierBrecht De SmetMarlies CasierDorien Vanden BoerBernard Mazijn

2018

Introduction : revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt

Cemal Burak TanselBrecht De Smet

Editorial material

Rejoinder : reading Tahrir in Gramsci

A1 Journal Article in REVIEW OF AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

2017

Resistance and passive revolution in Egypt and Morocco

Brecht De SmetKoenraad Bogaert

Bookchapter in States of discipline : authoritarian neoliberalism and the contested reproduction of capitalist order

2016

Gramsci on Tahrir: revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt

In want of the people: Tahrir as a revolutionary reconstitution of the Egyptian national-popular subject

Bookchapter in Political identities and popular uprisings in the Middle East

Neoliberalism and the future of social movements (Studies)

A1 Journal Article in GLOBAL POLICY

The political pedagogy of proletarian hegemony Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian Workers’ Movement in the Face of Revolution

2015

A dialectical pedagogy of revolt: Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian revolution

Dreaming about the lesser evil: revolutionary desire and the limits of democratic transition in Egypt

A2 Journal Article in WORKERS OF THE WORLD

The passive revolution of spiritual politics: gramsci and foucault on modernity, transition and religion

Jelle VersierenBrecht De Smet

Bookchapter in Gramsci and foucault : a reassessment

Trade unions and dictatorship in Egypt

Brecht De SmetSeppe Malfait

A4 Journal Article in JADALIYYA

2014

Alterglobalization and the limits of prefigurative politics

Bookchapter in Collaborative projects : an interdisciplinary study

Once again on Caesarism: continuing the debate with Joel Beinin

Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE & SOCIETY

Tahrir: a project(ion) of revolutionary change

Bookchapter in Collaborative projects : an interdisciplinary study

Theory and its consequences : a reply to Joel Beinin

A4 Journal Article in JADALIYYA

Urban culture as passive revolution: a gramscian sketch of the uneven and Combined Transitional development of rural and urban modern culture in Europe and Egypt

Jelle VersierenBrecht De Smet

Bookchapter in Marxism and urban culture

2013

A post scriptum: the Arab spring and the sectarian issue

Sami ZemniBrecht De Smet

Bookchapter in The dynamics of Sunni-Shia relationships : doctrine, transnationalism, intellectuals and the media

De Arabische Lente en de sektarische kwestie : Egypte, Bahrein en Libanon

Sami ZemniBrecht De SmetRoel MeijerMarieke Krijnen

Bookchapter in Het Midden-Oosten : the times they are a-changin'

De Arabische revolutie twee jaar later

Sami ZemniBrecht De SmetKoenraad Bogaert

Bookchapter in Het Midden-Oosten : the times they are a-changin'

Eb en vloed van de 25 januari-revolutie

A4 Journal Article in VREDE (UTRECHT)

Egypt: from rebel to revolution?

Brecht De SmetVivienne Matthies-Boon

In opstand tegen de farao : een ifriet waart door het Midden-Oosten...

Bookchapter in Het Midden-Oosten : the times they are a-changin'

Luxemburg on Tahrir Square: reading the Arab Revolutions with Rosa Luxemburg's the mass strike

Sami ZemniBrecht De SmetKoenraad Bogaert

A1 Journal Article in ANTIPODE

The winding path of Egypt's revolution

Van de passieve Arabische straat naar een actief Arabisch volk?

Sami ZemniBrecht De Smet

Bookchapter in Het Midden-Oosten : the times they are a-changin'

2012

Egyptian workers and 'their' intellectuals: the dialectical pedagogy of the Mahalla strike movement

A1 Journal Article in MIND CULTURE AND ACTIVITY

The prince and the Pharaoh: the collaborative project of workers and their intellectuals in the face of revolution

Brecht De SmetSami ZemniJo Van Steenbergen

2010

De Moslimbroedermetamorfosen: historische gedaanteverwisselingen van het Egyptische islamisme

A4 Journal Article in VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT

2009

Caïro: vormen, ruimtes en subjecten

A4 Journal Article in AGORA (AMSTERDAM)

Politieke uitdagingen voor de Egyptische linkerzijde

A4 Journal Article in VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT

2008

Marxisme en Islam: het syncretisme van Ali Shariati

A4 Journal Article in VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT