The Afterlife in the Arab Spring

ISBN-13: 9780367229870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 134 str.

Amira Mittermaier

Opis

Focusing not on the youth activism of the Arab Spring, but on the death associated with it, this book examines martyrdom and commemoration as performative acts through which death and life are infused with meaning. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.

Spis treści

Introduction: Death and Martyrdom in the Arab Uprisings  1. Civics Lesson: Ambivalence, Contestation, and Curricular Change in Tunisia  2. Technologies of Immortality, ‘Good Endings’, and Martyrdom in Urban Egypt  3. To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt’s Coptic Christians  4. Reckoning with the Inevitable: Death and Dying among Syrian Christians during the Uprising  5. The Martyr Pop Moment: Depoliticizing Martyrdom

O autorze

Amira Mittermaier is an Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the award-winning book Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination (2010).