基本説明
Both Arab and western scholars discuss for the first time the ways
in which this nascent area can be conceptualised and theorised.
Full Description
'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, popular culture, creativity and much more. The book presents a meta-narrative about how scholars have thus far thought and re-thought the field. It brings together prominent and emerging experts, writing from both Arab and Western academia, to engage with key complex, epistemic and methodological questions and to articulate in the meantime the new kinds of language and hermeneutics necessary for the appropriation of an historically conscious and coherent field of scientific enquiry into contemporary Arab media, culture and society.
Contents
Introduction
Tarik Sabry
Chapter 1
Cultural Criticism: Theory & Method
Abdullah Al Ghadhami
Chapter 2
The Saudi Modernity Wars According To 'Abdullah Al-Ghadhami: A Template for the Study of Arab Culture and Media
Marwan Kraidy
Chapter 3
Arab Media Studies between the Legacy of a Thin Discipline
And the Promise of New Cultural Pathways
Mohamed Zayani
Chapter 4
Cultural Studies in Arab World Academic Communication Programmes
The Battle for Survival
Muhammad Ayish
Chapter 5
In search of the Great Absent: Cultural Studies in Arab Universities
Riadh Ferjani
Chapter 6
Resources, Creativity and Arab culture: Insights from a Political Economy Approach
Naomi Sakr
Chapter 7
Language as culture: The question of Arabic
Atef al-Shaer
Chapter: 8
Rethinking the Arab State and Culture: Power, discourse and media in contemporary Syria
Dina Matar
Chapter 9
The Necessary Politics of Palestinian Cultural Studies
Helga Tawil-Souri
Chapter 10
Rethinking Gender Studies in the Arab World: A Conceptual Intervention
Layal Ftouni
Chapter 11
Disarticulating Arab Popular Culture: The Case of Egyptian Comedies.
Iman Hamam
Chapter 12
Internationalizing a Media Studies degree in Arab Higher Education: A case study arising from an agreement between New Zealand and Oman
Susan O'Rourke and Rosser Johnson
Chapter 13
Arab cultural studies: between re-territorialization and de-territorialization
Tarik Sabry
Notes
Index
