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“ayşe nil”

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  • Discourse and Identity in Turkish Media

    Edited by Süheyla Nil Mustafa, Ayşe Dilara Bostan ...
    Mainstream media offer audiences identities in accordance with certain definitions of “normal behavior” as given in hegemonic discourses. This book explores the hegemonic/normative discourses circulating in the Turkish mainstream media. Such an analysis provides the mental codes and frameworks offered to the ordinary Turkish people “subjected” to the mass media throughout their daily lives. Each ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

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    Edited by Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabsay ...
    Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Diasporic Condition

    Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World

    by Ghassan Hage ...
    Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory.In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage engages with the diasporic Lebanese community as a shared lifeworld, defining a common cultural milieu that transcends spatial and temporal ... Read more

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  • Afghanistan Remembers

    Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices

    by Parin Dossa ...
    Although extensive literature exists on the violence of war, little attention has been given to the ways in which this violence becomes entrenched and normalized in the inner recesses of everyday life. In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    by Anouk de Koning ...
    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Space New Media Documentary

    A Toolkit for Theory and Practice

    by Patricia R. Zimmermann, Helen De Michiel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice
    Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new media documentary projects that move across platforms and utilize participatory modalities. The book offers an innovative theorization of these collaborative and collective new media practices, which the authors term "open space," gesturing towards a ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Live and Die Like a Man

    Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt

    by Farha Ghannam ...
    Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender inequalities are hotly debated by religious figures, government officials, activists, scholars, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Pashtun Traditions versus Western Perceptions

    Cross-Cultural Negotiations in Afghanistan

    by Leo Karrer ...
    Series series eCahiers de l’Institut
    Cross-cultural interactions take place every day in contemporary Afghanistan between locals and the thousands of foreigners working in the country as diplomats, officials from international organisations and humanitarian aid workers. As their work requires them to interact with Afghans in manifold ways, all foreigners are, at least indirectly, required to negotiate. Karrer’s ePaper sheds light on ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    by Charis Boutieri ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Metrolingualism

    Language in the City

    by Alastair Pennycook, Emi Otsuji ...
    This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of ‘metrolingualism’, showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual exchange between people, history, migration, architecture, urban landscapes and linguistic resources. Cities and languages are in constant change, as new speakers with new repertoires come into contact as a result of ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age

    Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Belly Dance Around the World

    New Communities, Performance and Identity

    Edited by Caitlin E. McDonald, Barbara Sellers-Young ...
    In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice. They explore the differences between the solo improvisational forms of North Africa and the Middle East, often referred to as raqs sharki, which are part of family celebrations, and the numerous ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD