Why Muslim Women and Smartphones: Mirror Images

ISBN-13: 9781032174334 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Karen Waltorp

Opis

Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro, Denmark use their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates the divide between public and private in relation to a group of people who find this distinction of utmost significance.

Spis treści

Foreword by Sarah Pink. Acknowledgements. Introduction: al-Harakat. Image List. Playlist.  A. Smartphone  Affordances of the Smartphone.  Touch and Crucial Connectivity.  Secrets and Smartphones  a. Cyborg  Cyborg Ethics for an Accountable Multi-modal Anthropology.  Kitab al-Manazir and Cyborg Optics.  Parallax as a Harakat Move and a Speaking Nearby  B. Hanan al-Noerrebro: Affections for the Neighborhood  An Urban Habitat - a Typical Blaagaarden Girl.  The Ghetto, the Square, Behind the Curtain.  Facebook Flirt: The Stabbing of Taher  b. What's in a Field  Enacting Hybridity.  Harakat and Composite Habitus.  Perceiving Affordances  C. Hijab, Desire, Social Control  Entanglements of Free Speech and Veiled Women. 'Playing with the Scarf is Playing with Our Religion'.  Modest/Desire.  Orientalism, Freedom, State Control.  Smartphone as Valve and Part-revolution?  Freedom/Choice.  So Muslim Women Need Saving?  D. Dreams and the Imaginal realm – Alam al-Mîthal  The Kidnapping.  Moral/Laws.  Sab'r enacted and shared in social media.  Images and Mirrors.  Imaginal realm and Virtuality.  Composite Habitus.  The Flow of (Mirror) Images and Future-Making.  Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Karen Waltorp is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.