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A civilized revolution: Aesthetics and political action in Egypt
Acts of aesthetic ordering dominated Egyptian protest and civic activity in 2011, around the time of former president Hosni Mubarak's downfall. They played a central role in motivating collective political action, giving form to a nationalist utopian vision and legitimizing ordinary Egyptians as active agents and upright citizens. Yet they also reproduced exclusionary middle‐class aspirations tied up with state projects and related forms of citizenship that center on surveillance, individualism, and consumption. Examining such acts of aesthetic ordering reveals the tensions at the heart of many political movements, especially as people attempt to enact their utopian visions in public space. The precarity of both middle classness and utopian schemes of revolution render aesthetics a key battleground of political action. [activism, social movements, aesthetics, space, middle class, waste, Egypt] Youth brigades sweep Tahrir Square, Cairo, the day after Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's departure, February 12, 2011. (Ahmed Asad/Apaimages/Polaris)
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The privilege of revolution: Gender, class, space, and affect in Egypt
In this commentary, I challenge assumptions about political transformation by contrasting women's experiences at home during the Egyptian revolution with the image of the iconic male revolutionary in Tahrir Square. I call attention to the way that revolution is experienced and undertaken in domestic spaces, through different forms of affect in ways deeply inflected by gender and class.
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Anthropology's politics : disciplining the Middle East
U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as \"useless\" or \"biased\" by right-wing forces. What happens when the two concerns meet, when such accusations target the researchers and research of a region so central to U.S. military interests?
This book is the first academic study to shed critical light on the political and economic pressures that shape how U.S. scholars research and teach about the Middle East. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how Middle East politics and U.S. gender and race hierarchies affect scholars across their careers—from the first decisions to conduct research in the tumultuous region, to ongoing politicized pressures from colleagues, students, and outside groups, to hurdles in sharing expertise with the public. They detail how academia, even within anthropology, an assumed \"liberal\" discipline, is infused with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist obstruction of any criticism of the Israeli state. Anthropology's Politics offers a complex portrait of how academic politics ultimately hinders the education of U.S. students and potentially limits the public's access to critical knowledge about the Middle East.
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Anthropologies of Arab-Majority Societies
This article reviews recent anthropological scholarship of Arab-majority societies in relation to geopolitical and theoretical shifts since the end of the Cold War, as well as conjunctures of research location, topic, and theory. Key contributions of the subfield to the larger discipline include interventions into feminist theorizing about agency; theories of modernity; analyses of cultural production consumption that destabilize the culture concept; approaches to religion that integrate textual traditions with practice, experience, and institutions; and research on violence that emphasizes routinization and affect. Emerging work in the areas of race and ethnicity, secularism, law, human rights, science and technology, and queer studies has the potential to strengthen anthropology of the region as well as to contribute to the discipline more broadly.
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Civilizing Muslim youth: Egyptian state culture programmes and Islamic television preachers
This article explores the similarities and differences between artist and Islamic preacher discourses on art, culture, and youth in Mubarak-era Egypt in order to highlight the utility and limitations of current anthropological discussions of secularism and religious discursive traditions. By focusing on the shared civilizing and transformative associations of youth, art, and religion, it argues that there is an ingraining of Islamic civilizing traditions into modern governance and vice versa. Furthermore, explaining this phenomenon of ingraining requires that we give more attention to social class and geographical location, nationalism, global and national political-economic shifts, and the complicated ways that globally circulating discourses become entangled. L'article explore les points communs et les différences entre les discours des artistes et des prédicateurs islamiques sur l'art, la culture et la jeunesse dans l'Égypte de Moubarak, pour mettre en lumière l'utilité et les limites des débats anthropologiques actuels sur le sécularisme et les traditions discursives religieuses. En se concentrant sur les associations civilisatrices et transformatives entre jeunesse, art et religion qu'elles partagent, l'auteure avance que les traditions civilisatrices islamiques sont enracinées dans la gouvernance moderne, et vice versa. Pour expliquer ce phénomène d'enracinement, il faudrait que nous prêtions davantage d'attention à la classe sociale et à la position géographique, au nationalisme, aux changements politico-économiques mondiaux et nationaux et à l'entremêlement complexe des discours circulant à l'échelle globale.
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The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror
This essay examines the connections between art and politics in Middle East arts events in the U.S. since 9/11/2001. It critiques the universalist assumptions about humanity and the agentive capacity of art to build bridges of understanding in contexts of so-called civilizational conflict-assumptions that have strong roots in anthropology. By juxtaposing evidence of how the notion of \"humanity\" is deployed in exhibitions of Palestinian art with an analysis of the three more predominant types of arts events (historical Islamic art, Sufi arts, and contemporary art by Muslim women), the essay demonstrates how American secular elite discourse on Middle Eastern art corresponds to that of the \"War on Terror.\"
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Civilizing M uslim youth: E gyptian state culture programmes and Islamic television preachers
This article explores the similarities and differences between artist and Islamic preacher discourses on art, culture, and youth in M ubarak‐era E gypt in order to highlight the utility and limitations of current anthropological discussions of secularism and religious discursive traditions. By focusing on the shared civilizing and transformative associations of youth, art, and religion, it argues that there is an ingraining of Islamic civilizing traditions into modern governance and vice versa. Furthermore, explaining this phenomenon of ingraining requires that we give more attention to social class and geographical location, nationalism, global and national political‐economic shifts, and the complicated ways that globally circulating discourses become entangled.
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\I Still Have a Realistic Expectation of Better Prospects for Egypt's Future\
In an interview, Wael Eskandar, a Cairo-based independent journalist who blogs at Notes from the Underground, discusses activism of exiles. Eskander thinks the main struggle for activists in exile, or even analysts who don't visit Egypt often, is to understand the sentiment on the street and its exact context. He still has a realistic expectation of better prospects for Egypt's future. Arabic-language journalism in Egypt is nearly dead - at least in its traditional forms, such as newspapers and television. Yet there are many emboldened citizens who express their opinions and help to shape [public knowledge of the] facts. Many Egyptians cannot cope with the fact that the military to which they handed power is a failure in handling the country's politics.
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