Overview
A rich interdisciplinary study of the relationships between space, both physical and virtual, and social and political participation Where do people meet, form relations of trust, and begin debating social and political issues? Where do social movements start? In this fascinating collection, scholars and activists from a wealth of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, anthropology, history, and political science, take a fresh look at these questions and the factors leading to political and social change in the Arab world from a spatial perspective. Based on original field work in Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, and Palestine, Spaces of Participation connects and reconnects social, cultural, and political participation with urban space. It explores timely themes such as formal and informal spaces of participation, alternative spaces of cultural production, space reclamation, and cultural activism, and the reconfiguring of space through different types of contestation. It also covers a range of spaces that include sports clubs, arts centers, and sites of protest and resistance, as well as virtual spaces such as social media platforms, in the process of examining the relationships and tensions between physical and virtual space. Spaces of Participation underlines the temporal and transformative quality of participatory spaces and how they are shaped by their respective political contexts, highlighting different forms of access, control, and contestation. Contributors: Randa Aboubakr, Cairo University, Egypt Hicham Ait-Mansour, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco Fadma Ait Mous, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Mouloud Amghar, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco Yazid Anani, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine Mai Ayyad, Cairo University, Egypt Youness Benmouro, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco Yasmine Berriane, Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS), Paris, France Mokhtar El Harras, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco Ulrike Freitag, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany Sarah Jurkiewicz, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany Mona Khalil, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Azzurra Sarnataro, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Renad Shqeirat, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine Dorota Woroniecka-Krzyzanowska, German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Author: Randa Aboubakr ,
Ulrike Freitag ,
Sarah Jurkiewicz ,
Hicham Ait-Mansour
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Imprint: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9781617979897
ISBN 10: 1617979899
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 06 April 2021
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Format: Hardback
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Reviews
"“From art spaces to sports clubs to community gardens to digital realms—the contributors draw our attention to how different groups across the Middle East ascribe social and political meaning to the multiple heterotopic landscapes they inhabit, contest, (re)claim, and indeed produce through participatory practices. The editors have done a wonderful job of bringing together what might seem to be quite different and unrelated case studies (from Cairo to Kuwait to Rabat to the West Bank) in an integrated, innovative, interdisciplinary, and highly readable collection.”—Farah Al-Nakib, California Polytechnic State University ""An engaged and engaging volume, showcasing firsthand ethnographic and interdisciplinary research on the intersection between space and participatory practices across the Arab world. Through varied and empirically rich case studies this collection of essays shows how space (both physical and virtual) is made operational through lived action, and how activism and academia can be combined subtly and fruitfully.""—Nelida Fuccaro, New York University Abu Dhabi"
From art spaces to sports clubs to community gardens to digital realms--the contributors draw our attention to how different groups across the Middle East ascribe social and political meaning to the multiple heterotopic landscapes they inhabit, contest, (re)claim, and indeed produce through participatory practices. The editors have done a wonderful job of bringing together what might seem to be quite different and unrelated case studies (from Cairo to Kuwait to Rabat to the West Bank) in an integrated, innovative, interdisciplinary, and highly readable collection. --Farah Al-Nakib, California Polytechnic State University An engaged and engaging volume, showcasing firsthand ethnographic and interdisciplinary research on the intersection between space and participatory practices across the Arab world. Through varied and empirically rich case studies this collection of essays shows how space (both physical and virtual) is made operational through lived action, and how activism and academia can be combined subtly and fruitfully. --Nelida Fuccaro, New York University Abu Dhabi
Author Information
Randa Aboubakr is a professor of English and comparative literature at Cairo University. Sarah Jurkiewicz is a post-doc researcher and research coordinator of the “Spaces of Participation” and the “Liminal Spaces” project at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Hicham Ait-Mansour is associate professor of sociology at Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco. He is an associate member of the Arab Council for Social Sciences. Ulrike Freitag is a historian of the modern Middle East specialized in the history of the Arabian Peninsula in its translocal context, the director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
