Culture and Crisis in the Arab World
eBook - ePub

Culture and Crisis in the Arab World

Art, Practice and Production in Spaces of Conflict

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Culture and Crisis in the Arab World

Art, Practice and Production in Spaces of Conflict

About this book

Since 2011, the art of the Arab uprisings has been the subject of much scholarly and popular attention. Yet the role of artists, writers and filmmakers themselves as social actors working under extraordinary conditions has been relatively neglected. Drawing on critical readings of Bourdieu's Field Theory, this book explores the production of culture in Arab social spaces in 'crisis'. In ten case studies, contributors examine a wide range of countries and conflicts, from Algeria to the Arab countries of the Gulf. They discuss among other things the impact of Western public diplomacy organisations on the arts scene in post-revolutionary Cairo and the consequences of dwindling state support for literary production in Yemen. Providing a valuable source of empirical data for researchers, the book breaks new ground in adapting Bourdieu's theory to the particularities of cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Yes, you can access Culture and Crisis in the Arab World by Richard Jacquemond, Felix Lang in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Middle Eastern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780755643684
eBook ISBN
9781786726322
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents 
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Beauty, Goodness and Bombs: The Role of Political Crisis in Structuring the Arab Field(s) of Cultural Production
  10. 2. Rumour in Two Tunisian Artistic Fields: A Form of Legitimate Speech
  11. 3. The Symbolic Power of Syrian Collective Memory since 2011
  12. 4. Committed Knowledge: Autonomy and Politicization of Research Institutions and Practices in Wartime Lebanon (1975–90)
  13. 5. The Crisis as an Institutional Tool: Challenging Anti-Institutional Challenges in the Egyptian Cultural Field
  14. 6. The Algerian Literary Field in the ‘Black Decade’: A Reinforced Polarization
  15. 7. Successive Shifts in the Yemeni Cultural Field 2011–16
  16. 8. A Field in Exile: The Syrian Theatre Scene in Movement
  17. 9. Class and Creative Economies: The Cultural Field in Cairo
  18. 10. Contemporary Art in Extremis: Gaza between Imprisonment and Globalization
  19. Index
  20. Imprint