Conflictability: Political imagination & the power game-revisiting the Egyptian Revolution of January 25th, 2011

How does political change happen? And how can human agency change how political change happens? In light of these two questions, this dissertation investigates social and political change and the human agency. It proposes a new theory that offers a comprehensive approach transcending the seemingly contradicting answers to the question of change, namely "conflictability." The conflictability theory addresses the ever-evolving relationship and harmony between political imagination and the power game. In this context, the case of the 2011 Egyptian revolution is emphatically significant, especially the youth group who sparked the revolution that led to Mubarak's ouster after ruling Egypt for 30 years. The Revolutionary Youth Coalition (hereafter referred to as the CYR) developed a new political imagination that enabled them to bring about the much-awaited change, even if briefly. However, as the events unfolded, the CYR was constrained by an increasing inability to control the course of events. Hence, their political imagination lagged behind the new realities of the power game and they failed to consolidate their new social reality. Ultimately, the CYR couldn't turn the transformation they instigated into a self-sustaining and socially irreversible transmutation. Thus, the crisis of the Egyptian revolution is arguably a crisis of its agents' conflictability.