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  • Cultural Encounters in the Arab World

    On Media, the Modern and the Everyday

    by Tarik Sabry ...
    In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Arab Subcultures

    Transformations in Theory and Practice

    by Tarik Sabry, Layal Ftouni ...
    What is 'Arab' about Arab subcultures? This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural groups and practices, including film, graffiti, music, live art performances, Arab techies and youth cultures. Contributors tackle a number of questions including: How is the study of Arab subcultures to be theorised? How are we to analyse such creative ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts

    An Ethnographic Perspective

    by Tarik Sabry, Nisrine Mansour ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children’s uses of digital media in three sites—London, Casablanca and Beirut—and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content. The study moves away from a conventional definition of media towards a pluralistic ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South

    Context, Theory and Method

    Edited by Tarik Sabry, Winston Mano, Andrea Medrado ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    This edited collection offers an unprecedented focus on decolonising audience and user studies in the global South, challenging essentialist discourses of media imperialism and technological determinism.Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World

    Media, Public Space and Temporality

    Edited by Tarik Sabry, Joe F. Khalil ...
    In this revealing new study, Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil preside over an original new exploration of Arab culture. They employ subjects as varied as anthropology, media studies, philosophy, political economy and cultural studies to illuminate the relationship between culture, time and publics in an Arab context, whilst also laying the foundations for a much more nuanced picture of Arab society. The ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Arab Cultural Studies

    Mapping the Field

    Edited by Tarik Sabry ...
    '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, ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD

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    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
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  • Contemporary Arab Women Writers

    Cultural Expression in Context

    by Anastasia Valassopoulos ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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    Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation

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