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Title Culture and crisis in the Arab world : art, practice and production in spaces of conflict / edited by Richard Jacquemond and Felix Lang
Published London : I.B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents Introduction: Richard Jacquemond and Felix Lang ̃ -- Beauty, Goodness, and Bombs. The Role of Political Crisis in Structuring the MENA Field of Cultural Production Felix Lang -- Rumour in Two Tunisian Artistic Fields: A Form of Legitimate Speech Annabelle Boissier and Mariem Guellouz -- The Symbolic Power of Syrian Collective Memory since 2011 Alexa Firat -- Committed Knowledge: Autonomy and Politicization of Research Institutions and Practices in Wartime Lebanon (1975-1990) Candice Raymond -- The Crisis as an Institutional Tool: Challenging Anti-Institutional Challenges in the Egyptian Cultural Field Elena Chiti -- The Algerian Literary Field in the 'Black Decade': Signs of Reinforced Polarization -- Tristan Leperlier -- Successive Shifts in the Yemeni Cultural Field 2011-2016 Laurent Damesin -- Class and Creative Economies: The Culture Field in Cairo Ilka Eickhof -- Contemporary Art in Extremis: Gaza between Imprisonment and Globalization Marion Slitine -- Notes on the Contributors
Summary "Since 2011, the art of the Arab uprisings has been the subject of much scholarly and popular attention. Yet the role of artists, writers and filmmakers themselves as social actors working under extraordinary conditions has been relatively neglected. Drawing on critical readings of Bourdieu's Field Theory, this book explores the production of culture in Arab social spaces in 'crisis'. In ten case studies, contributors examine a wide range of countries and conflicts, from Algeria to the Arab countries of the Gulf. They discuss among other things the impact of Western public diplomacy organisations on the arts scene in post-revolutionary Cairo and the consequences of dwindling state support for literary production in Yemen. Providing a valuable source of empirical data for researchers, the book breaks new ground in adapting Bourdieu's theory to the particularities of cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arab Spring, 2010- -- Influence -- Case studies
Art and society -- Arab countries -- Case studies
Art -- Political aspects -- Arab countries -- Case studies
Art -- Arab countries -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies
Cultural studies.
Literary studies: general.
Middle Eastern history.
History -- Middle East -- General.
Art and society
Art -- Political aspects
Art -- Sociological aspects
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Arab countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Jacquemond, Richard, editor
Lang, Felix, editor
ISBN 1786736381
9781786736383
9781838603533
1838603530
9781788314244
1788314247
9781786726322
1786726327