Qualitative case analysis reveals how everyday contestation shapes political consciousness in divided societies, highlighting the role of invisible politics in long revolutions.
Key Points
To evaluate how the 'long revolution' framework explains the development of political consciousness and civic mobilization outside formal political organizations in divided societies.
Applied Abdelrahman's 'long revolution' theoretical model to analyze non-ethnic civic mobilization in divided societies.
Conducted a longitudinal, biographical examination of unaffiliated activist trajectories during the Iraqi Tishreen movement.
Everyday 'invisible politics' occurring outside formal organizations significantly cultivate diffuse political consciousness across overlapping temporalities.
Longitudinal, processual frameworks provide an alternative to outcome-oriented paradigms that treat non-ethnic civic mobilization in divided societies as exceptional.