Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781780769035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str.

Tarik Sabry

Opis

What is Arab about Arab subcultures? This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorizing Arab subcultural groups and practices, including film, graffiti, music, live art performances, Arab techies and youth cultures. Contributors tackle a number of questions including: How is the study of Arab subcultures to be theorized? How are we to analyze such creative processes in a new worldliness characterised by trans-temporality and trans-subjectivity? Arab Subcultures effectively opens up a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue about Arab subcultures with different fields of enquiry - including anthropology, philosophy, art criticism and cultural studies - at the heart of which lies the key intellectual task of re-imagining the uneasy relation between aesthetics and politics in an age of revolutions."

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: Sub-culturing or any type of culturing as a temporal conjunctureTarik Sabry and Layal FtouniChapter 2 'Hatha al-Shibl min dhak al-Asad': Arab Youth Studies and the revival of 'subculture' Ramy AlyChapter 3 Hacking Rites: Recoding the Political in Contemporary Cultural Practices Tarek El-ArissChapter 4 On 'Resistance': Affective Politics in Live Performances of Arabic Rap Rayya El-ZeinChapter 5 Cosmopolitans, Nationalists and Fundamentalists in the Modern Middle East Sami Zubaida (reprint from Beyond Islam, 2011, I.B. Tauris)Chapter 6 Mediated Imagination, Class and Cairo's Young Cosmopolitan Heba ElsayedChapter 7The Terrain of Subculture in Silences of the Palace (Mofida Tlatli, 1994) Margherita SprioChapter 8 Screening Everyday Violence: Youth, Globalisation and Subcultural Aesthetics in Moroccan CinemaJamal BahmadChapter 9 Visualising the Unseen: Documentary Filmmaking and LGBT Performativity in Lebanon Nisrine MansourChapter 10 Mithly.net: An Alternative Digital Discourse From Morocco, 2010-2011 Justin McGuinnessChapter 11 The Cultural Avant-Gardes and the Social Net: The Case of Egypt Stefan WinklerChapter 12 Just a bunch of (Arab) geeks? How an elite of "techies" shaped a digital culture in the Arab region and contributed to the making of the Arab uprisings Donatella Della Ratta & Augusto ValerianiChapter 13 Performative Interventions in Public Space: An interview with Dictaphone Group Conducted by Layal FtouniIndex

O autorze

Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster, in the UK, where he is a member of the Communication and Media Research Institute and the director of the Arab Media Centre.