The Revolution Against Neoliberalism

Armbrust, Walter

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“…(Armbrust 2011;emphasis mine) While US leaders and regional regimes recognized that geopolitical shifts, including the global economic crisis, the waning of the US geostrategic position, and the dominant position of new emerging regional powers, demanded they be alert, they felt secure in their own seductions (money, power) and Arabs' 'non-flexible' subjectivities (Rakha, 2011). Accordingly, in the last 10 years, both Tunisia and Egypt instituted neoliberal policies with dire sexed and class effects.…”

Section: 'Better' Poetic Revolutions In the Middle East And North Afrmentioning

confidence: 98%

Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution

Agathangelou

2011

Globalizations

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The protests and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region define and exceed the imperialism's new manifestations and challenge the 'stabilities' and 'business as usual' in their moves to make anew the Arab region. Emerging revolutionary sexual poetics, I argue, ride the transformative power of the erotic while resisting and interrupting tired gendered and universal portrayals of the local-feminine backward East region and masculine rational forward West-global. The practical and conceptual shifts of the protests in the MENA present an energeia that disrupts 'business as usual' capitalism and substantively transforms power and sexual relations. The region's poetry (poems, slogans, songs) is an essential driver of this energeia which contests fetishized syndromes of transformation. In fact, in the MENA region, sex and poetics are major contestation sites of alternative ethical imperatives of being in time including practical and conceptual shifts in world-making projects.

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Section: 'Better' Poetic Revolutions In the Middle East And North Afrmentioning

confidence: 98%

Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution

Agathangelou

2011

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“…By neglecting the structural and historical factors leading to social exclusion, neoliberal reforms may thus have sown the seeds of their own destruction (see Armbrust, 2011). …”

Section: The Rise and Effects Of Neoliberalism In The Southern Meditementioning

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Introduction: Researching the effects of neoliberal reforms on local governance in the Southern Mediterranean

Bergh

2012

Mediterranean Politics

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The effects of neoliberal economic reforms in the Southern Mediterranean are now widely regarded as a main underlying cause of the Arab uprisings. An often neglected dimension is that of the reforms' implications for local governance. The contributions to this collection examine how state power is being re-articulated but also challenged at sub-national levels in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Turkey. They explore the effects of neoliberal economic and local governance reforms such as decentralization, public -private partnerships, and outsourcing in the area of public service delivery, poverty alleviation and labour market reforms on local patronage networks, public accountability and statesociety relations. The findings show that such reforms are often subordinated to established patterns of political contestation among actors who seize on the opportunities that reforms offer to advance their political agendas. This introduction presents the key themes and findings, and the global and regional background on neoliberal theories, research and practice.

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“…I argue that they view it, in fact, as an issue that affects their marriageability. Even though digital media has been studied in countries with an important Muslim population over the last two decades (see e.g., Armbrust 2000;Eickelman and Anderson 1999), this gendered aspect has been little explored. Much of the 1 All names in this article have been changed and interlocutors have been assigned pseudonyms.…”

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“…literature on the digital media in Egypt focuses on online activism and the Arab spring (see e.g., Armbrust 2011;el Ghobashy 2011;Herrera 2014).…”

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Online Presentation of Gendered Selves among Young Women in Egypt

Jyrkiäinen

2016

Middle East J Cult Commun

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Social media and Facebook in particular have become an important arena of social interaction and premarital romance in Egypt. In a society where dating can potentially harm the reputation of young women, a decent public image is considered valuable symbolic capital. This is especially true for brides-to-be. Many university-educated young women have found Facebook useful for impression management. It is necessary for them to mask aspects of their behavior that may be condemned as morally inappropriate and they have thus developed strategies for navigating through certain moral expectations about female sexual purity, virginity and modesty. I define the young women who edit their profiles in order to conform to the prevailing norms of decency, in Goffman’s terms, as ‘cynical performers’. As I show, the embellishment of the self is a pragmatic solution to the problem of coping with existing dating practices and conflicting norms of proper gender interaction, often understood as ‘Islamic’.

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The Revolution Against Neoliberalism

Cited by 17 publications

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Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution

Making Anew an Arab Regional Order? On Poetry, Sex, and Revolution

Introduction: Researching the effects of neoliberal reforms on local governance in the Southern Mediterranean

Online Presentation of Gendered Selves among Young Women in Egypt

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