Arab Cultural Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Mapping the Field
Redaktion: Sabry, Tarik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field' is the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualising and theorising the nascent field of Arab Cultural Studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more. The book presents a meta-narrative about how scholars have thus far thought and re-thought the field. It brings together prominent and emerging experts, writing from both Arab and Western academia, to engage with key complex, epistemic and methodological questions and to articulate in the meantime the new kinds of language and hermeneutics necessary for the appropriation of an historically conscious and coherent field of scientific enquiry into contemporary Arab media, culture and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857730824
• Artikelnr.: 55404343

Autorenporträt

Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and is co-editor if the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Tarik Sabry Chapter 1 Cultural Criticism: Theory & Method
Abdullah Al Ghadhami Chapter 2 The Saudi Modernity Wars According To
'Abdullah Al-Ghadhami: A Template for the Study of Arab Culture and Media
Marwan Kraidy Chapter 3 Arab Media Studies between the Legacy of a Thin
Discipline And the Promise of New Cultural Pathways Mohamed Zayani Chapter
4 Cultural Studies in Arab World Academic Communication Programmes The
Battle for Survival Muhammad Ayish Chapter 5 In search of the Great Absent:
Cultural Studies in Arab Universities Riadh Ferjani Chapter 6 Resources,
Creativity and Arab culture: Insights from a Political Economy Approach
Naomi Sakr Chapter 7 Language as culture: The question of Arabic Atef
al-Shaer Chapter: 8 Rethinking the Arab State and Culture: Power, discourse
and media in contemporary Syria Dina Matar Chapter 9 The Necessary Politics
of Palestinian Cultural Studies Helga Tawil-Souri Chapter 10 Rethinking
Gender Studies in the Arab World: A Conceptual Intervention Layal Ftouni
Chapter 11 Disarticulating Arab Popular Culture: The Case of Egyptian
Comedies. Iman Hamam Chapter 12 Internationalizing a Media Studies degree
in Arab Higher Education: A case study arising from an agreement between
New Zealand and Oman Susan O'Rourke and Rosser Johnson Chapter 13 Arab
cultural studies: between re-territorialization and de-territorialization
Tarik Sabry Notes Index