Ahmed Kanna
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 650687 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ahmed Kanna |
| NOMBRES | Ahmed |
| APELLIDO | Kanna |
| FIRMA | KANNA A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Pacific |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Enlisted in struggle
In this article, I analyze Marxist activists’ narratives of becoming Marxist and their practices in activist spaces. Drawing on Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khansnabish's notion of “militant ethnography” and on Jodi Dean's recuperation of the political party form of organizing, I ethnographically describe activists’ motivations to become Marxist and examine two events—a pro-Bernie political meeting and an anti-Trump rally—in which activists intervened …
Bury Class Society Before It Buries Us All
Eleanor Burke Leacock taught that transhistorical, universal male dominance is a myth, not a fact. Writing during the grimmest period of Cold War reaction, Leacock put forward a critique of the mainstream U.S. ideology, which took for granted the idea that there were only two genders, in binary opposition to each other, and that these were the direct product of so-called male and female nature
Reports
Melissa Fleming, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel (New York: Flatiron Books, 2017), 288 pp. Omar Dewachi, Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), xviii + 239 pp. Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Sonita (Zurich: Xenix Film, 2015), 90 min. Ron Bourke, Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience (Portland: Collective Eye Films, 2019), 36 min
Space, Mobility, and Shifting Identities in the Constitution of the “Field”
This chapter reflects on the experiences of the authors during a combined three decades of research in Dubai, Doha, and Riyadh, highlighting their shifting and contingent subject positions as they moved through urban spaces in the Arabian Peninsula and interacted with various interlocutors during their dissertation research. It examines how prevalent ideas about identity in North American and European societies, which have heavily influenced post…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter explores the question of what decolonized ethnography and academia can look like. It argues that de-exceptionalizing the Arabian Peninsula as a field site requires deconstructing an idealized vision of Western academia as a presumed site of democracy and liberalism. The projects of anthropology and sociology, as they have been invested in anticolonial and antiracist justice and breaking down binary understandings between E…
Class Struggle and De-exceptionalizing the Gulf
This chapter presents a class-struggle perspective to the question of labor exploitation in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the figure of the foreign worker. Both liberal and neocolonial Western representations of the working-class migrant have been central to exceptionalizing discourses. In the popular imagination of many in the Global North/West, the Gulf region is almost automatically associated with hyperexploited, abused workers, primaril…
Beyond Exception
Over nearly two decades during which they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, the authors have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for the book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a “field” that is marked by such representations. The book's focus is …
Introduction
Beyond Exception
Neoliberal Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
Abdali Urban Regeneration Project, Collage. Courtesy of Abdali Psc. NotesAccessible overviews can be found in Lynch (Citation) and Gelvin (Citation). For more in-depth and systematic treatments of Arab regimes on the eve of the Arab uprisings see Owen (Citation). An excellent series of analyses written as events unfolded has been collected in Haddad, Bsheer, and Abu Rish (Citation)For coverage in English, see Al-Ahram Online and the Jordan Times …
Urbanism and Neoliberal Order
This article explores the self-representation of market urbanism as an economic project. It does so through an historically situated study of the redevelopment of the Abdali district of Amman. Drawing upon recent fieldwork, press reports, and interviews with municipal officials, urban planners, and architects, the article questions the understanding of property markets and the production of space under contemporary capitalism as rooted in the eco…
Arab Cities in the Neoliberal Moment
Amman Suq, winter 2009. Photo by Najib Hourani. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNajib B. HouraniNajib B. Hourani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Having received his PhD in Politics (New York University, 2005), Hourani's research today investigates the dark underside of capitalist globalization in Middle Eastern cities. He is currently working on…
Speaking of the City
The Arab Gulf remains a marginalized, even unfashionable, area of research in the Middle East academy. In spite of—or maybe because of—this marginality, the region offers an interesting vantage point for reflecting on the production of knowledge about geographic and cultural regions. The frame of knowledge production casts into relief discourses of “the city” in Middle East, and particularly Gulf, studies over the past decade
Vora, Neha
Anthropos , Seite 350 - 351
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Group of like-Minded Lads in Heaven”
While the Arab Gulf’s imperial geography has been recognized at the level of geopolitics, little if any work has connected empire to the daily, human geographies of the region. Scholarship on the intersection between urbanism and empire has tended to emphasize issues of surveillance and governance, assuming, whether intentionally or not, an imperial, “birds-eye” point of view. Such an approach both leaves much interesting material out of the anal…
Rethinking Global Urbanism
Preface Tim Bunnell and James D. Sidaway. Introduction: Bringing the Less Familiar Cities In and Together Ahmed Kanna and Xiangming Chen Part I: Urban Present and Past: How Culture, History, and Politics Shape Secondary Global and Local Cityscapes 1. Competitive Globalization and Urban Change: The Allure of Cultural Strategies Sharon Zukin 2. The Trajectories of Two Tigers: The Colonial Roots of Capitalism in Dubai and Singapore Ahmed Kanna 3. Sh…
Urban praxis and the Arab Spring
City of Strangers
Dubai, the City as Corporation
Flexible Citizenship in Dubai
This essay addresses subjectivity in the context of the emergence of neoliberalism in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The appropriation of neoliberal values and policies in Dubai offers data on cultural processes that demonstrate the highly localized ways neoliberalism is inflected, challenging theories of neoliberal policies as monolithic instruments of global integration. Unlike other national contexts such as Singapore, local inflections of neoli…
Making Cadres of the “City—Corporation”
The contributions by Bishara, Deeb and Harb, Silverstein, and Winegar explore the ways non-state actors confront nationalist state projects. If these projects are not always foregrounded, the modernist nationalist state is nevertheless always in the background in each case, inviting an examination and critique of the “political commodifications of culture.” Here, I take a different approach to the culture concept in struggles between modernizing …
Beyond Exception
Over nearly two decades during which they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, the authors have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for the book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a “field” that is marked by such representations. The book's focus is …
Flexible Citizenship in Dubai
This essay addresses subjectivity in the context of the emergence of neoliberalism in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The appropriation of neoliberal values and policies in Dubai offers data on cultural processes that demonstrate the highly localized ways neoliberalism is inflected, challenging theories of neoliberal policies as monolithic instruments of global integration. Unlike other national contexts such as Singapore, local inflections of neoli…
Urbanism and Neoliberal Order
This article explores the self-representation of market urbanism as an economic project. It does so through an historically situated study of the redevelopment of the Abdali district of Amman. Drawing upon recent fieldwork, press reports, and interviews with municipal officials, urban planners, and architects, the article questions the understanding of property markets and the production of space under contemporary capitalism as rooted in the eco…
Beyond Exception
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Group of like-Minded Lads in Heaven”
While the Arab Gulf’s imperial geography has been recognized at the level of geopolitics, little if any work has connected empire to the daily, human geographies of the region. Scholarship on the intersection between urbanism and empire has tended to emphasize issues of surveillance and governance, assuming, whether intentionally or not, an imperial, “birds-eye” point of view. Such an approach both leaves much interesting material out of the anal…
Urban praxis and the Arab Spring
Neoliberal Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
Abdali Urban Regeneration Project, Collage. Courtesy of Abdali Psc. NotesAccessible overviews can be found in Lynch (Citation) and Gelvin (Citation). For more in-depth and systematic treatments of Arab regimes on the eve of the Arab uprisings see Owen (Citation). An excellent series of analyses written as events unfolded has been collected in Haddad, Bsheer, and Abu Rish (Citation)For coverage in English, see Al-Ahram Online and the Jordan Times …
Arab Cities in the Neoliberal Moment
Amman Suq, winter 2009. Photo by Najib Hourani. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNajib B. HouraniNajib B. Hourani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Having received his PhD in Politics (New York University, 2005), Hourani's research today investigates the dark underside of capitalist globalization in Middle Eastern cities. He is currently working on…
Reports
Melissa Fleming, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel (New York: Flatiron Books, 2017), 288 pp. Omar Dewachi, Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), xviii + 239 pp. Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Sonita (Zurich: Xenix Film, 2015), 90 min. Ron Bourke, Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience (Portland: Collective Eye Films, 2019), 36 min
Speaking of the City
The Arab Gulf remains a marginalized, even unfashionable, area of research in the Middle East academy. In spite of—or maybe because of—this marginality, the region offers an interesting vantage point for reflecting on the production of knowledge about geographic and cultural regions. The frame of knowledge production casts into relief discourses of “the city” in Middle East, and particularly Gulf, studies over the past decade
Making Cadres of the “City—Corporation”
The contributions by Bishara, Deeb and Harb, Silverstein, and Winegar explore the ways non-state actors confront nationalist state projects. If these projects are not always foregrounded, the modernist nationalist state is nevertheless always in the background in each case, inviting an examination and critique of the “political commodifications of culture.” Here, I take a different approach to the culture concept in struggles between modernizing …
Flexible Citizenship in Dubai
This essay addresses subjectivity in the context of the emergence of neoliberalism in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The appropriation of neoliberal values and policies in Dubai offers data on cultural processes that demonstrate the highly localized ways neoliberalism is inflected, challenging theories of neoliberal policies as monolithic instruments of global integration. Unlike other national contexts such as Singapore, local inflections of neoli…
Dubai, the City as Corporation
Rethinking Global Urbanism
Preface Tim Bunnell and James D. Sidaway. Introduction: Bringing the Less Familiar Cities In and Together Ahmed Kanna and Xiangming Chen Part I: Urban Present and Past: How Culture, History, and Politics Shape Secondary Global and Local Cityscapes 1. Competitive Globalization and Urban Change: The Allure of Cultural Strategies Sharon Zukin 2. The Trajectories of Two Tigers: The Colonial Roots of Capitalism in Dubai and Singapore Ahmed Kanna 3. Sh…
Urban praxis and the Arab Spring
City of Strangers
Crushed? Cairo’s Garbage Collectors and Neoliberal Urban Politics
For decades Cairo’s solid waste management, based on local garbage collectors (zabal; pl. zabaleen) was among the most uniquely ecological in the world. In recent decades, the zabaleen’s work has increasingly been pushed aside, as aspects of their services were contracted to multinational companies. This article argues that, with their continued presence, activities, and savvy understanding of urban dynamics, marginalized groups like the garbage …
A Group of like-Minded Lads in Heaven”
While the Arab Gulf’s imperial geography has been recognized at the level of geopolitics, little if any work has connected empire to the daily, human geographies of the region. Scholarship on the intersection between urbanism and empire has tended to emphasize issues of surveillance and governance, assuming, whether intentionally or not, an imperial, “birds-eye” point of view. Such an approach both leaves much interesting material out of the anal…
Neoliberal Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings
Abdali Urban Regeneration Project, Collage. Courtesy of Abdali Psc. NotesAccessible overviews can be found in Lynch (Citation) and Gelvin (Citation). For more in-depth and systematic treatments of Arab regimes on the eve of the Arab uprisings see Owen (Citation). An excellent series of analyses written as events unfolded has been collected in Haddad, Bsheer, and Abu Rish (Citation)For coverage in English, see Al-Ahram Online and the Jordan Times …
Urbanism and Neoliberal Order
This article explores the self-representation of market urbanism as an economic project. It does so through an historically situated study of the redevelopment of the Abdali district of Amman. Drawing upon recent fieldwork, press reports, and interviews with municipal officials, urban planners, and architects, the article questions the understanding of property markets and the production of space under contemporary capitalism as rooted in the eco…
Arab Cities in the Neoliberal Moment
Amman Suq, winter 2009. Photo by Najib Hourani. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNajib B. HouraniNajib B. Hourani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. Having received his PhD in Politics (New York University, 2005), Hourani's research today investigates the dark underside of capitalist globalization in Middle Eastern cities. He is currently working on…
Speaking of the City
The Arab Gulf remains a marginalized, even unfashionable, area of research in the Middle East academy. In spite of—or maybe because of—this marginality, the region offers an interesting vantage point for reflecting on the production of knowledge about geographic and cultural regions. The frame of knowledge production casts into relief discourses of “the city” in Middle East, and particularly Gulf, studies over the past decade
Vora, Neha
Anthropos , Seite 350 - 351
Space, Mobility, and Shifting Identities in the Constitution of the “Field”
This chapter reflects on the experiences of the authors during a combined three decades of research in Dubai, Doha, and Riyadh, highlighting their shifting and contingent subject positions as they moved through urban spaces in the Arabian Peninsula and interacted with various interlocutors during their dissertation research. It examines how prevalent ideas about identity in North American and European societies, which have heavily influenced post…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter explores the question of what decolonized ethnography and academia can look like. It argues that de-exceptionalizing the Arabian Peninsula as a field site requires deconstructing an idealized vision of Western academia as a presumed site of democracy and liberalism. The projects of anthropology and sociology, as they have been invested in anticolonial and antiracist justice and breaking down binary understandings between E…
Class Struggle and De-exceptionalizing the Gulf
This chapter presents a class-struggle perspective to the question of labor exploitation in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the figure of the foreign worker. Both liberal and neocolonial Western representations of the working-class migrant have been central to exceptionalizing discourses. In the popular imagination of many in the Global North/West, the Gulf region is almost automatically associated with hyperexploited, abused workers, primaril…
Beyond Exception
Over nearly two decades during which they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, the authors have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist discourses about the region and its people, political systems, and prevalent cultural practices. These persistent encounters became the springboard for the book, a reflection on conducting fieldwork within a “field” that is marked by such representations. The book's focus is …
Introduction
Beyond Exception
Reports
Melissa Fleming, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel (New York: Flatiron Books, 2017), 288 pp. Omar Dewachi, Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017), xviii + 239 pp. Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Sonita (Zurich: Xenix Film, 2015), 90 min. Ron Bourke, Terror and Hope: The Science of Resilience (Portland: Collective Eye Films, 2019), 36 min
Enlisted in struggle
In this article, I analyze Marxist activists’ narratives of becoming Marxist and their practices in activist spaces. Drawing on Jeffrey Juris and Alex Khansnabish's notion of “militant ethnography” and on Jodi Dean's recuperation of the political party form of organizing, I ethnographically describe activists’ motivations to become Marxist and examine two events—a pro-Bernie political meeting and an anti-Trump rally—in which activists intervened …
Bury Class Society Before It Buries Us All
Eleanor Burke Leacock taught that transhistorical, universal male dominance is a myth, not a fact. Writing during the grimmest period of Cold War reaction, Leacock put forward a critique of the mainstream U.S. ideology, which took for granted the idea that there were only two genders, in binary opposition to each other, and that these were the direct product of so-called male and female nature
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