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CANCELLED The Streets are Talking to Me

Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm

White Hall
123 Central Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Due to campus closure, this event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule for a future date.

Maria Malmstrom, Lund University, Sweden

"The Streets are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt"

This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society—the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-conscious ethnography of the space where affect, material life, violence, political crisis, and masculinities meet one another.

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Lecture

Departments

Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology

Contact E-Mail

akc52@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Ayla Cline

Speaker

Maria Malmstrom

Speaker Affiliation

Lund University, Sweden

Dept. Web Site

neareasternstudies.cornell.edu

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If you need assistance to participate in this event, please contact Ayla as soon as possible.

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