Middle Eastern Belongings

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-55026-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Thisbook features chapters that examine the various ways of belonging in the Middle East. Belonging can mean fitting in, feeling at home, feeling a part; this kind of belonging is profoundly social. Belongings can be possessions, objects closely associated with one’s deepest notions of identity. Both kinds of belongings pertain to people and the kindreds, ethnic groups, and nations (and/or states) they call their own. Belongings of both kinds are, more often than not, emplaced and territorialized.
All of the chapters treat Middle Eastern collectivities as sites of anguished cultural projects. All use metaphor: national territory as woman, national resolve as cactus, and so on. None is reductionistic; belonging is rendered in its complexity, with its agonies as well as its joys. All could be identified with a growing genre of work on belonging. At the heart of each are the bonds that comprise belonging. Each one conveys both belonging’s messiness and its joys, and touches as much as it argues and elaborates.
This book was published as a special issue ofIdentities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Diane E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introductions: Impositions, ironies, bodies, lands Diane E. King 2. On the Margins: Women, national boundaries, and conflict in Saddam's Iraq Sarah Smiles Persinger 3. Leaving Mother-Land: The anti-feminine in Fida’i narratives Samar Kanafani 4. The Personal is Patrilineal: Namus as sovereignty Diane E. King 5. Land of Symbols: Cactus, poppies, orange and olive trees in Palestine Nasser Abufarha 6. Naturalising, Neutralising Women’s Bodies: The “Headscarf Affair” and the Politics of Representation Gabriele vom Bruck 7. When Belonging Inspires—Death, hope, distance Virginia R. Dominguez

Über Autor(innen)

Diane E. King is a cultural anthropologist interested in identities ranging from the gendered to the national and trans-national. Her main field site is the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where she has worked since 1995. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.