The Afterlife in the Arab Spring (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mittermaier, Amira

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Conversely, it shows how, in the making, remembering, and erasing of martyrs, hierarchies are (re)produced and possible futures are foreclosed. The contributors argue that critical anthropological engagement with death, martyrdom, and afterlife is indispensable if we want to understand the making of pasts and futures in a revolutionary present. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317201878
• Artikelnr.: 54361311

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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