Making, parading, hanging and burning effigies is a form of public political display deeply rooted in traditional practices, holiday celebrations, and ritual. The work maps the intertwined genealogies of the protest practice in two countries – the United Kingdom and Egypt – and shows on these examples, how the practice easily moves between tradition and politics: how it is sometimes staged as protest in political conflicts, how it can turn into a tradition to commemorate the struggle, and how it can be reactivated from social memory in times of renewed crises.
