Papers by Somaia M. ElSayed
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Purpose – The paper aims at engaging the critical commons scholarship by including a broader rang... more Purpose – The paper aims at engaging the critical commons scholarship by including a broader range of resources and commons and proposing a new typology for their classification. This helps expand the scope of institutional analysis to explain cooperative behaviour, patterns of interactions and outcomes in different contexts.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a theoretical endeavour starting descriptively to establish the proposed typology, based on two criteria: the origin (naturally endowed or human-made) and the need for the community management. Next, the paper maps the proposed typology into its analytical implications on Ostrom’s IAD framework.
Findings – The paper concludes that commons might take different forms, each of which requires a framework for its analysis. In doing so, the paper does not argue about the elements of institutional analysis, but rather about their configuration.
Research limitations/implications – The proposed typology managed to address the functional, political, and methodological critique raised against Ostrom’s institutional analysis, but fell short of engaging the normative critique.
Practical implications – The adapted framework helps policy makers understand forms of cooperation between agents and how the resultant institutional arrangements emerge, change, and/or persist. It also provides an analytical to for development agencies when planning their interventions in local communities.
Originality/value – This paper fulfils an identified need to seek conceptual clarity and analytical rigorousness in institutional analysis.
Keywords: Common Pool Resources, Knowledge Commons, Indigenous Knowledges, IAD Framework, Institutional Analysis, Pooled Commons, ROSCAs, institutions
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Yossra Taha Assistant lecturer at the faculty of Economics and Political Science Cairo University... more Yossra Taha Assistant lecturer at the faculty of Economics and Political Science Cairo University, Aya Nassar and Somaia Metwally are Teaching Assistants at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science Cairo University, Dina Tawfik is a Teaching Assistant at the International Academy for Engineering and Media Sciences, Karim Khashaba is MSc Political Science Student, and Salah Eldin El-Rashidy Works for the Information and Decision Support Center
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رغم ما يكتنف التحليل الطبقى من تحديات وإشكاليات لا مفر منها، لاسيما فى الواقع المصرى، إلا أن الت... more رغم ما يكتنف التحليل الطبقى من تحديات وإشكاليات لا مفر منها، لاسيما فى الواقع المصرى، إلا أن التحول نحو نظرية التعقيد Complexity Turn فى علم الاجتماع السياسي؛ قد فتح مجالا رحبًا لتفسير التحولات الطبقية وتأثيراتها حيث يهتم ليس فقط بإقامة علاقة بين ماضى الظاهرة وحاضرها (الامتداد التاريخي/ التطور الزمنى الخطى وعناصر الاستمرارية)، وإنما أيضا بالمدخلات التى قد تؤثر على خصائص الظاهرة وتكسبها خصوصيتها (عناصر التغير وسماته). وفى هذا الإطار، تسعى الورقة إلى تقديم مدخلا لتحليل الطبقة الوسطى فى الواقع المصرى وإنتاج أدوات تحليل بديلة للإنتماءات الطبقية ومجموع المفاهيم والمصطلحات الوارد استخدامها فى هذا الغرض. وتبدأ الورقة باستعراض تطور التحليل الطبقى فى علم الاجتماع السياسى والتطورات المتزامنة التى شهدها الهيكل الاجتماعى المصرى،
.ثم تستعرض إمكانية تحليل الطبقة فى مصر بالاعتماد على مفهوم الاضطراب الطبقى
مجلة الديمقراطية، العدد 67
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تصاعد الجدل حول مصير تنظيم "داعش" عقب تردد أنباء من مصادر متعددة حول مقتل أبي بكر البغدادي زعيم ا... more تصاعد الجدل حول مصير تنظيم "داعش" عقب تردد أنباء من مصادر متعددة حول مقتل أبي بكر البغدادي زعيم التنظيم، وتحرير مدينة الموصل من قبضة التنظيم، فعلى الرغم من تأكيدات بعض الخبراء بأن سقوط البغدادي سيؤدي لتفكك وانهيار التنظيم، فإن مراجعة نماذج سابقة لتنظيمات إرهابية فقدت قياداتها، مثل تنظيم القاعدة بعد مقتل أسامة بن لادن وحركة طالبان بعد الملا محمد عمر في 2013 ثم مقتل الملا اختر منصور في مايو 2016، تؤكد أن التنظيمات الإرهابية تتمكن من التكيف مع سقوط قياداتها واستعادة قدرتها على التصعيد الميداني وتوسيع نطاق عملياتها الإرهابية.
ومن المرجح في حالة داعش أن تتراجع قوة التنظيم عقب تحرير الموصل نتيجة فرض حصار على معاقله في سوريا والعراق وقطع خطوط امداداته وسقوط الصف الأول من قياداته بالإضافة للانقسامات المتزايدة داخل التنظيم.
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This research represents a serious attempt to uncover the impact of electronic social networks on... more This research represents a serious attempt to uncover the impact of electronic social networks on the performance of the social movements. The relationship was examined within the Egyptian context on the case of 6th April social movement. Building upon the literature review on different theories of social movements and collective action, a set of correlated arguments were formulated. The qualitative data collection techniques, in-depth interviews and participant observation, were applied. The results of the research indicated that e-social network enhance the ability of social movement to gain public support. However, this effect is shrinking in terms of the organizational structure or the movement's collective identity.
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This report is the work of a group of six young Egyptian researchers. Based on semi structured in... more This report is the work of a group of six young Egyptian researchers. Based on semi structured interviews and focus groups it explores the notions of identity held by contemporary young Egyptians, „offline‟ and „online‟. It sets out to unravel some of the „distortions‟ and „confusions‟ they are subject to. It was conducted through a period of two years from 2008 till 2010.
The research and its design arose from a problem the researchers observed within the contemporary Egyptian context, and that is the struggle between the forces of tradition and Modernity that the Contemporary Egyptian society faces. This has led to „distortions‟ and „confusions‟ about what manifests contemporary Egyptian identity. This problem is particularly apparent among young people in Egypt. On the one side, a large number of young Egyptians today feel comfortable adopting „Western‟ lifestyles while on the other side, there are those, who categorically reject these „Western‟ lifestyles in favor of more „traditional‟ ones. And yet others, in fact a large number of young people, adopt both lifestyles, though often in what can be seen as contradictory and inconsistent ways.
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Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a theoretical endeavour starting descriptively to establish the proposed typology, based on two criteria: the origin (naturally endowed or human-made) and the need for the community management. Next, the paper maps the proposed typology into its analytical implications on Ostrom’s IAD framework.
Findings – The paper concludes that commons might take different forms, each of which requires a framework for its analysis. In doing so, the paper does not argue about the elements of institutional analysis, but rather about their configuration.
Research limitations/implications – The proposed typology managed to address the functional, political, and methodological critique raised against Ostrom’s institutional analysis, but fell short of engaging the normative critique.
Practical implications – The adapted framework helps policy makers understand forms of cooperation between agents and how the resultant institutional arrangements emerge, change, and/or persist. It also provides an analytical to for development agencies when planning their interventions in local communities.
Originality/value – This paper fulfils an identified need to seek conceptual clarity and analytical rigorousness in institutional analysis.
Keywords: Common Pool Resources, Knowledge Commons, Indigenous Knowledges, IAD Framework, Institutional Analysis, Pooled Commons, ROSCAs, institutions
.ثم تستعرض إمكانية تحليل الطبقة فى مصر بالاعتماد على مفهوم الاضطراب الطبقى
مجلة الديمقراطية، العدد 67
ومن المرجح في حالة داعش أن تتراجع قوة التنظيم عقب تحرير الموصل نتيجة فرض حصار على معاقله في سوريا والعراق وقطع خطوط امداداته وسقوط الصف الأول من قياداته بالإضافة للانقسامات المتزايدة داخل التنظيم.
The research and its design arose from a problem the researchers observed within the contemporary Egyptian context, and that is the struggle between the forces of tradition and Modernity that the Contemporary Egyptian society faces. This has led to „distortions‟ and „confusions‟ about what manifests contemporary Egyptian identity. This problem is particularly apparent among young people in Egypt. On the one side, a large number of young Egyptians today feel comfortable adopting „Western‟ lifestyles while on the other side, there are those, who categorically reject these „Western‟ lifestyles in favor of more „traditional‟ ones. And yet others, in fact a large number of young people, adopt both lifestyles, though often in what can be seen as contradictory and inconsistent ways.
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Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a theoretical endeavour starting descriptively to establish the proposed typology, based on two criteria: the origin (naturally endowed or human-made) and the need for the community management. Next, the paper maps the proposed typology into its analytical implications on Ostrom’s IAD framework.
Findings – The paper concludes that commons might take different forms, each of which requires a framework for its analysis. In doing so, the paper does not argue about the elements of institutional analysis, but rather about their configuration.
Research limitations/implications – The proposed typology managed to address the functional, political, and methodological critique raised against Ostrom’s institutional analysis, but fell short of engaging the normative critique.
Practical implications – The adapted framework helps policy makers understand forms of cooperation between agents and how the resultant institutional arrangements emerge, change, and/or persist. It also provides an analytical to for development agencies when planning their interventions in local communities.
Originality/value – This paper fulfils an identified need to seek conceptual clarity and analytical rigorousness in institutional analysis.
Keywords: Common Pool Resources, Knowledge Commons, Indigenous Knowledges, IAD Framework, Institutional Analysis, Pooled Commons, ROSCAs, institutions
.ثم تستعرض إمكانية تحليل الطبقة فى مصر بالاعتماد على مفهوم الاضطراب الطبقى
مجلة الديمقراطية، العدد 67
ومن المرجح في حالة داعش أن تتراجع قوة التنظيم عقب تحرير الموصل نتيجة فرض حصار على معاقله في سوريا والعراق وقطع خطوط امداداته وسقوط الصف الأول من قياداته بالإضافة للانقسامات المتزايدة داخل التنظيم.
The research and its design arose from a problem the researchers observed within the contemporary Egyptian context, and that is the struggle between the forces of tradition and Modernity that the Contemporary Egyptian society faces. This has led to „distortions‟ and „confusions‟ about what manifests contemporary Egyptian identity. This problem is particularly apparent among young people in Egypt. On the one side, a large number of young Egyptians today feel comfortable adopting „Western‟ lifestyles while on the other side, there are those, who categorically reject these „Western‟ lifestyles in favor of more „traditional‟ ones. And yet others, in fact a large number of young people, adopt both lifestyles, though often in what can be seen as contradictory and inconsistent ways.