The aesthetics of dissent: Culture and politics of transformation in the Arab world

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Eid Mohamed ◽  
Waleed Mahdi ◽  
Hamid Dabashi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Media Politics ◽  
Shed Light

Our special issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models at a crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. The issue presents a unique attempt to investigate these forms of cultural production as new modes of knowledge that shed light on the nature of social movements with the aim of expanding the critical reach of the disciplinary methods of political discourse and social theory. Contributors articulate the ways in which the Arab scene can contribute to the understanding of the rise of new social movements worldwide by exploring the methodological gaps in dominant Western discourses and theories.

scholarly journals Media, identity, and online communities in a changing Arab world

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1035-1042
Author(s):  
Eid Mohamed ◽  
Aziz Douai ◽  
Adel Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Arab World ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Media Politics

Our Special Issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models at crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts, including media (traditional and alternative), in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. This special issue examines the role of new media in the construction of online communities in the Arab world. It contributes to the understanding of how user-generated content empowers these new publics and the novel communities established by user comments on social media and news websites. Specifically, it explores these online communities and their perceptions of the role of user-generated content to contribute to politics, and potentially engage other citizens in the public debate.

A move towards curating in the field of contemporary visual and performing arts: The Nagib platform

Maska ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (196) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Kaja Kraner
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Long Operation

In the first phase, the article strives to outline the context of the expansion of curation in the field of visual arts in relation to certain specifics of contemporary art in Slovenia since the 1990s. I point out a few similarities within the field of contemporary performing arts, moving onto the concrete case of the fifteen-year-long operation of the Nagib platform, formalised since 2013 as Nagib, Association for the Cultural Production and Affirmation of Artistic Processes. I constantly try to think of the focus shifts and approaches to the functioning of the Nagib platform along the basic lines of wider production changes in the cultural and artistic field in Slovenia that have taken place since this period, while referring to certain specifics of the Maribor cultural and artistic context.

scholarly journals Caribbean Pelau

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Campbell ◽  
Jeanette Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Caribbean

Call for submissions for a Special Issue which will showcase new directions of the visual and performing arts in the Caribbean region.

Markets are constantly collapsing: Reconceptualizing ‘the market’ as a quantum social wavefunction

2021 ◽  
pp. 102452942098782
Author(s):  
Michael Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Broad Framework

The quantum moment in International Relations theory challenges the taken for granted Newtonian assumptions of conventional theories, while offering a novel physical imaginary grounded in quantum mechanics. As part of the special issue on reconceptualizing markets, this article questions if prior efforts to conceptualize ‘the market’ have been unsuccessful at capturing the paradoxical microfoundational/macrostructural because of the Newtonian worldview within which much social science operates. By developing a new, quantum perspective on the market, taking the physical paradigm of the wavefunction, I seek to explore the connections between entanglement, nonlocality, interference and invisible social structures. To demonstrate the applicability of quantum thinking, I explore how global value chains and open economy politics might be ‘quantized’, through the mobilization of core concepts of quantum social theory, within the broad framework of the market as a quantum social wavefunction.

scholarly journals EDUCATING WOMEN FOR DEVELOPMENT: THE ARAB HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2005 AND THE PROBLEM WITH WOMEN'S CHOICES

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 122a-122a
Author(s):  
Fida J. Adely
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
Women And Education ◽  
Shed Light

The Arab Human Development Report 2005, the fourth in a series that has received much acclaim and stirred much controversy, takes up the issue of women's development in the Arab world. Through a careful reading and analysis of sections of the report that address education and economic participation, this paper offers a critique of the human capabilities framework that frames this report. I highlight critical tensions between the claim that providing education is an essential element of expanding choices and the assumptions embedded in discussions about women and education regarding which choices are acceptable and/or desirable. These tensions point to the persistence of values derived from the mandates of global capital, albeit in the new language of neoliberal choice, revealing that ‘human development’ does not represent a significant departure from earlier conceptualizations of development. I draw on my ethnographic research in Jordan as one example to interrogate such assumptions and to shed light on the ambiguities built into the educational project for young women today.

Special Issue on “Social Movements, Civil Societies and Corporations”

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 637-638
Author(s):  
Frank de Bakker ◽  
Frank den Hond ◽  
Brayden King ◽  
Klaus Weber
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Civil Societies

scholarly journals Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters

Organization ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianna Fotaki ◽  
Kate Kenny ◽  
Sheena J. Vachhani
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
New States ◽  
Shed Light

Affect holds the promise of destabilizing and unsettling us, as organizational subjects, into new states of being. It can shed light on many aspects of work and organization, with implications both within and beyond organization studies. Affect theory holds the potential to generate exciting new insights for the study of organizations, theoretically, methodologically and politically. This Special Issue seeks to explore these potential trajectories. We are pleased to present five contributions that develop such ideas, drawing on a wide variety of approaches, and invoking new perspectives on the organizations we study and inhabit. As this Special Issue demonstrates, the world of work offers an exciting landscape for studying the ‘pulsing refrains of affect’ that accompany our lived experiences.

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were attributed to him in late Antiquity. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to present Quintilian’s Institutio as a key treatise in the history of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and its influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education, from late Antiquity until the present day. It contains chapters on Quintilian’s educational programme, his concepts and classifications of rhetoric, his discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, his style, his views on literary criticism, declamation, and the relationship between rhetoric and law, and the importance of the visual and performing arts in his work. His huge legacy is presented in successive chapters devoted to Quintilian in late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, Northern Europe during the Renaissance, Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, and the United States of America. There are also chapters devoted to the biographical tradition, the history of printed editions, and modern assessments of Quintilian. The twenty-one authors of the chapters represent a wide range of expertise and scholarly traditions and thus offer a unique mixture of current approaches to Quintilian from a multidisciplinary perspective.

scholarly journals Management and Organization Review Special Issue ‘Social Networks ‒ The Dark and Bright Sides of Informal Networks’

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-444
Author(s):  
Sven Horak ◽  
Fida Afiouni ◽  
Yanjie Bian ◽  
Alena Ledeneva ◽  
Maral Muratbekova-Touron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Current Theory ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
International Context ◽  
Transitioning Countries ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Rich History

Research on the mechanisms of organizing and managing via interpersonal relations has a rich history in the management and organization-oriented literature. So far, however, the informal dimension of managing and organizing by drawing on informal networks in an international context has received comparably less attention. Recent research has pointed out that social capital and network theories have largely been developed by Western scholars based on circumstances and social structures that are typical of Western societies. Thus, current theory takes into account to a lesser extent their character and nature and the way in which informal ties and networks are formed in other parts of the world (Ledeneva, 2018; Li, 2007b; Qi, 2013; Sato, 2010). Besides the growing body of literature concerned with informal ties and networks in emerging and transitioning countries, for example guanxi (China), blat/ svyazi (Russia), and wasta (Arab World), a trend for analyzing pervasive informal networks in advanced and industrialized economies, such as yongo (Korea), has arisen. While insights from the latter research stream indicate that informal networks persist, the results generated in both research streams will help in developing the extant informal network theories further.

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