العنف السياسي للدولة تجاه الفلاحين: دراسة ميدانية في قرية مصرية

الملخص EN

This study aimed to explore the nature of the formal political violence of the State’s institutions and bodies towards junior peasant producers in the Egyptian countryside.

It also intended to determine the types of this violence between peasants and the State in the Egyptian village.

This study addressed the following questions: What is the nature of political violence practised by the official State’s institutions towards peasants in the Egyptian countryside? What are the prominent features of this formal political violence? What are the most important responses of peasants to this formal violence? This descriptive study applies the case study and social survey approach.

The pertinent data was qualitatively and quantitatively analysed.

It also utilized the observation tool, open and in-depth interview, a guide to an in-depth interview and an interview questionnaire.

Conducted in one of the villages in Menoufia, this study used intentionally chosen subjects (16 peasants), as well as randomly chosen subjects (79 peasants).

All respondents belonged to the same village.

This field study was carried out from March to the end of June, 2016.

The present study reached significant conclusions: all respondents were unanimous that all State institutions and bodies in the countryside have exercised all types of political violence against junior peasants who have been owners or in the possession of lands from 1977 to the eve of the 25” January revolution.

At that time, the law on the relation between peasant owners and tenants, village Bank debtors and peasants who have objected to hand over their lands to the Agrarian reform authority, was applied.

It is worth noting that the Egyptian peasant has proved to be tolerant with the state.