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Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, po
Autor:
Ahmed Kanna
Publikováno v:
Focaal. 2023:61-73
In this article, I analyze Marxist activists’ narratives of becoming Marxist and their practices in activist spaces. Drawing on Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khansnabish's notion of “militant ethnography” and on Jodi Dean's recuperation of the politic
Autor:
Ahmed Kanna
Publikováno v:
Monthly Review. :13-25
Eleanor Burke Leacock taught that transhistorical, universal male dominance is a myth, not a fact. Writing during the grimmest period of Cold War reaction, Leacock put forward a critique of the mainstream U.S. ideology, which took for granted the ide
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Natalie Nesvaderani, Kathleen M. Gallagher, Ghufran Abudayyeh, Ahmed Kanna, Dima Hamadmad, Rana Dajani
Publikováno v:
Anthropology of the Middle East. 16:111-120
Melissa Fleming, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel (New York: Flatiron Books, 2017), 288 pp.Omar Dewachi, Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), xvii
Publikováno v:
Beyond Exception
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the Arabian Peninsula. This exceptionalism came to the fore in media and academic coverage of the “crisis” in the Gulf region. In general, the G
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.003.0001
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.003.0001
Autor:
Ahmed Kanna
Publikováno v:
Beyond Exception
This chapter presents a class-struggle perspective to the question of labor exploitation in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the figure of the foreign worker. Both liberal and neocolonial Western representations of the working-class migrant have be
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.003.0005
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.003.0005
Over nearly two decades during which they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, the authors have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.001.0001
Publikováno v:
Beyond Exception
This chapter reflects on the experiences of the authors during a combined three decades of research in Dubai, Doha, and Riyadh, highlighting their shifting and contingent subject positions as they moved through urban spaces in the Arabian Peninsula a
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.003.0002
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750298.003.0002
Autor:
Ahmed Kanna
Publikováno v:
A Research Agenda for Cities ISBN: 9781785363429
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https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363429.00028
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363429.00028
Publikováno v:
Journal of Urban Affairs. 36:621-633
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has i...