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Connected in Cairo : growing up cosmopolitan in the modern Middle East
For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social
capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or
goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more modern
places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies
-- of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films,
coffee shops and fast-food restaurants -- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social
practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood
into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational
system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan
Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root
themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic
practices.
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Superman : President Luthor
His fame bolstered after helping to rebuild Gotham City after an earthquake, billionaire Lex Luthor decides to run for the highest office in the land, the American presidency.
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Speaking of news: Press, democracy, and metapragmatics in a changing India
That the news matters is a fundamental postulate of modernity. Yet the ways people talk about the news varies across cultures and over time. In this article, I examine how such \"metapragmatic\" speech about the news changed across a 15-year period, during which India underwent seismic shifts in its political and economic order. By unpacking and contextualizing five metapragmatic utterances collected between two fieldwork periods, 1992-93 and 2007-08, I examine how people used the tension between the concepts of \"news as public good\" and \"news as commodity\" to indexically position themselves as democratic citizens in a changing nation. Furthermore, I explore how and why these discursive practices changed during the Indian economy's so-called liberalization.
Journal Article
Getting to the Story: Unwriteable Discourse and Interpretive Practice in American Journalism
The mandate for journalists is to \"get\" the story from sources with diverse, sometime inimical interests. Most news stories are negotiated in defined social contexts among many different actors, including sources, journalists, editors and press agents. Much of this negotiation occurs in an unwriteable register. Such discourse is thus a key site for looking at interpretive agency in newswriting. Speech labeled \"off-the-record\" is but one of several modes of discourse that are unwriteable in journalistic practice. In this article I examine a case study of journalistic practice, and the efforts I, as a journalist, engaged in to \"get\" the story from political actors who shift on and off the record while seeking to further their own practical agendas. I follow the conversations with situated political actors, both on and off the record, as the journalist attempts to move, both socially and textually, from unwriteable speech to a writeable story.
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Agents of hybridity: Class, culture brokers, and the entrepreneurial imagination in cosmopolitan Cairo
Flows of transnational popular culture into Egypt are not so much cases of foreign imperialism imposing itself on helpless Egyptians as they are processes managed by Cairene entrepreneurs whose accomplishments present them as successful agents of modernization, locating the cosmopolitan balance between global brands and goods and local markets and infrastructures. This chapter explores the links between these entrepreneurs, the state's “culture of development,” and class reproduction. Egyptian transnational entrepreneurialism – speculative, profit-oriented enterprises engaged with transnational flows of brands, commodities, and capital – has become yoked to the state's goal of national development through economic liberalization. Upper-class cosmopolitan entrepreneurs are increasingly positioned as agents of hybridity, culture brokers who can creatively forge links between supposedly rational and universal economic practices of market capital, and local cultural beliefs and values. Successful entrepreneurs are construed as possessing an “entrepreneurial imagination” by means of which they can overcome structural and cultural obstacles and contribute to the development of an Egyptian “enterprise culture.”
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Breaking boundaries
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.
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In Search of Antistructure
Revolutions are usually sprawling, unpredictable, inchoate things whose structures become apparent only from a distance as they unfold over time. Certainly this is true of the Egyptian revolution. Beginning as a carefully orchestrated protest by experienced agitators against the police as agents of state oppression, held on the national holiday Police Day, it was dispersed, seemingly almost routinely, late at night by police cannons. But it reemerged as a heroic, disorganized march against the regime that then morphed into a long-term, well-documented seizure of public space. It endured attacks that created martyrs to the cause; spread into other cities, from
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Situations and Interpretations: Explorations in Interpretive Practice
The role of interpretation as central to anthropology is discussed. The focus of interpretation in the social sciences has tended to center on the role of scholars in interpreting people's actions ex post facto.
Journal Article