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Tunisia's Modern Woman
Looking at women, politics, and culture in Tunisia from 1950s independence to the 1970s, highlighting the centrality of women to post-colonial state-building.
The Streets Are Talking to Me
This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society—the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-conscious ethnography of the space where affect, material life, violence, political crisis, and masculinities meet one another.
The Labor of Hope
Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality are pushing more and more people into insecurity and hardship. In Egypt, a generation of young men desire fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet find few paths to achieve this. The Labor of Hope follows these educated but underemployed men as they struggle to establish careers and build satisfying lives. In so doing, this book reveals the lived contradiction at the heart of capitalist systems—the expansive dreams they encourage and the precarious lives they pro...
Egypt’s Football Revolution
Both a symbol of the Mubarak government’s power and a component in its construction of national identity, football served as fertile ground for Egyptians to confront the regime’s overthrow during the 2011 revolution. With the help of the state, appreciation for football in Egypt peaked in the late 2000s. Yet after Mubarak fell, fans questioned their previous support, calling for a reformed football for a new, postrevolutionary nation. In Egypt’s Football Revolution, Carl Rommel examines the politics of football as a space for ordinary Egyptians and state forces to negotiate a masculine Egyptian chauvinism. Based on several years of fieldwork with fans, players, journalists, and coaches...
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Des auxiliaires Ançar de Médine, aux Ançar Dine de Ousmane Cherif Madani Haidara au Mali : Doctrine et liens historiques
Dans l’espace religieux malien, Aséïd Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara est sans conteste celui qui incarne au mieux, le message de tolérance, les vertus de dialogue, de cohésion sociale et de vivre ensemble avec les chrétiens. En effet, l’étude de la doctrine de Ançar Dine à travers son serment d’allégeance, la bay’a, nous apprend qu’en tant que chrétien, nous devons tirer les enseignements du parcours de l’histoire des relations islamo-chrétiennes, pour notre agir avec les musulmans. Après des siècles d’hostilités réciproques entre chrétiens et musulmans, le Christ semble appeler les Chrétiens à "habiter" le Monde Musulman et sa culture comme Lui-même a "habité" notre monde. Aujourd’hui plus que jamais, Haidara représente cet espoir pour l’Église du Mali, afin de mettre en pratique ensemble, les valeurs de tolérance, d’acceptation mutuelle, de dialogue, pour l’avènement d’un monde plus juste, plus harmonieux et où il fait bon vivre
Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation
This open access book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways people experience social change, whereas the research carried out to study change is necessarily limited to a relatively short space of time. This volume offers a range of methodological responses to this challenge by paying attention to the complex entanglement of qualitative research and the metanarratives generally used to account for change. Each chapter is based on a concrete case study from different parts of the world and tackles a diversity of topics, analytical approaches, and data collection methods. The contributors’ innovative solutions provide valuable tools and techniques for all those interested in the study of change.
Aberto
The book documents the itinerary and community response to the interactive activities of the constantly changing open art project "Fiteiro Cultural" created by artist De Barros and inspired in the unauthorized street vendor booths that ephemerally invade the public spaces of Sao Paulo. The art kiosks are metaphors of the socially and artistically legitimate places of culture stating the contrasts in the occupation of public space based on its function and was created when the artist participated in an artistic interchange between Switzerland, Brazil and France in the city of Joao Pessoa in northern Brazil in 1998. In 2004 she installed five separate kiosks in various locations of the city Sao Paulo during the World Cultural Forum.
