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Bayat, Asef Bayat, Asef Dill, Brian Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz Marshall, Anna-Maria Khalil, Hebatallah Mahmoud Abdelraouf 2022-01-12T22:55:04Z 2022-01-12T22:55:04Z 2024-01-12T22:56:20Z 2021-07-13 2021-08 This dissertation examines the rising precarity of Egyptian lawyers and its consequences on their politics. In making sense of lawyers’ complex class and status situation, now professionals living through subaltern lives, I trace the making of the profession to historical transformations since the 1950s. In particular, I expose critical junctures such as the unification of the legal system and the resulting diversification of the profession in the 1950s, the tripling of Law Schools and concurrent dismantling of the welfare state in the 1980s, and the mounting state infiltration of the Lawyers’ Syndicate in response to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood within its ranks in the 1990s. In so doing, I situate the making of contemporary lawyers within the context of a deteriorating law school that reproduces legal professionals with little cultural and economic capital, but simultaneously socializes them into the fantasies of the past grandeur of their profession. Based on eighteen months of ethnographic research, I elucidate lawyers’ precarity as embodied in a life lived in relation to the imagined past of an elite and radical profession. This experience of broken trajectories produces unsettled bodies, quivering in the gaps between their past and present, and their aspirations and frustrations, while seeking to assert their relevance and challenge their life situation. The logics of their precarity thus produces a politics of mattering that enables and structures diverse and often contradictory political possibilities. Lawyers’ complex class situation and logics of mattering enable them to broker street- and courtroom politics and mediate the relationship of the subaltern with national elites, while asserting their significance in society. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01 The student, Hebatallah Khalil, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-11 at 16:30. The student, Hebatallah Khalil, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-11 at 17:17. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-13 at 11:07. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16853 on 2022-01-12 at 13:04:30 Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:55:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 KHALIL-DISSERTATION-2021.pdf: 5781461 bytes, checksum: 073465ed6803ce8002aa20e8a92980e6 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4214 bytes, checksum: 1bfeabefb18f8d1f483a86577a84f32e (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4560 bytes, checksum: dc50e377f69037459104dd7311a106b0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-07-13 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 121228 Lift date: 2024-01-12T22:55:09Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 121228 Lift date: 2024-01-12T22:56:20Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113300 en © 2021 Hebtallah Mahmoud Abdelraouf Khalil lawyers, precarity, politics, mattering, class, legal profession Lawyers of Egypt: class, precarity and politics text Thesis Sociology Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.