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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Randa Aboubakr , Ulrike Freitag , Sarah Jurkiewicz , Hicham Ait-MansourPublisher: American University in Cairo Press Imprint: American University in Cairo Press ISBN: 9781617979897ISBN 10: 1617979899 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 06 April 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsNotes on Transliteration Introduction Randa Aboubakr, Sarah Jurkiewicz, Hicham Ait-Mansour, and Ulrike Freitag Part I Rethinking Participation in Formal and Informal Spaces Protests as a Space for Contentious Politics and Political Learning among Youth in Morocco: The Case of Mohamed V Avenue in Rabat Hicham Ait-Mansour The Concept of Participation in Cairo’s Unplanned Areas Azzurra Sarnataro Citizen Collectives in Post-2011 Egypt: Contestation Mechanisms Mona Khalil Interstitial Spaces and Controlled Participation: The Youth Center of Hay Mohammadi during the Years of Lead in Morocco Yasmine Berriane Participation in Spaces of Exile: The Making of Change in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyżanowska Part II Reconfiguring Space through Contestation The Challenge of Reconstructing Public Space: The Case of Mohamed V Avenue Mokhtar El Harras and Youness Benmouro The Muslim Brotherhood and the Creation of Spectacles in Nasr City Mai Ayyad Topographies of the Discourse of Resistance in the Public Sphere: A Case Study of the Activists of the February 20 Movement Mouloud Amghar Part III Alternative Spaces of Cultural Production Mock Translation as Sociopolitical Commentary in the Egyptian Digital Sphere Randa Aboubakr Spaces of Culture in Casablanca: Isles of Creativity in an Often-hostile Ocean Fadma Aït Mous Part IV Space Reclamation and Cultural Activism Cultural Heterotopias and the Making of the Political Yazid Anani Genius Loci: The Spirit of the Place Renad Shqeirat Culturepreneurship and Reclaiming Urban Space in Kuwait City Sarah JurkiewiczReviews"“From art spaces to sports clubs to community gardens to digital realms—the contributors draw our attention to how different groups across the Middle East ascribe social and political meaning to the multiple heterotopic landscapes they inhabit, contest, (re)claim, and indeed produce through participatory practices. The editors have done a wonderful job of bringing together what might seem to be quite different and unrelated case studies (from Cairo to Kuwait to Rabat to the West Bank) in an integrated, innovative, interdisciplinary, and highly readable collection.”—Farah Al-Nakib, California Polytechnic State University ""An engaged and engaging volume, showcasing firsthand ethnographic and interdisciplinary research on the intersection between space and participatory practices across the Arab world. Through varied and empirically rich case studies this collection of essays shows how space (both physical and virtual) is made operational through lived action, and how activism and academia can be combined subtly and fruitfully.""—Nelida Fuccaro, New York University Abu Dhabi" From art spaces to sports clubs to community gardens to digital realms--the contributors draw our attention to how different groups across the Middle East ascribe social and political meaning to the multiple heterotopic landscapes they inhabit, contest, (re)claim, and indeed produce through participatory practices. The editors have done a wonderful job of bringing together what might seem to be quite different and unrelated case studies (from Cairo to Kuwait to Rabat to the West Bank) in an integrated, innovative, interdisciplinary, and highly readable collection. --Farah Al-Nakib, California Polytechnic State University An engaged and engaging volume, showcasing firsthand ethnographic and interdisciplinary research on the intersection between space and participatory practices across the Arab world. Through varied and empirically rich case studies this collection of essays shows how space (both physical and virtual) is made operational through lived action, and how activism and academia can be combined subtly and fruitfully. --Nelida Fuccaro, New York University Abu Dhabi Author InformationRanda Aboubakr is a professor of English and comparative literature at Cairo University. Sarah Jurkiewicz is a post-doc researcher and research coordinator of the “Spaces of Participation” and the “Liminal Spaces” project at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Hicham Ait-Mansour is associate professor of sociology at Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He is an associate member of the Arab Council for Social Sciences. Ulrike Freitag is a historian of the modern Middle East specialized in the history of the Arabian Peninsula in its translocal context, the director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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