Wilson Chacko Jacob
Biographic Data
| ID | 194655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilson Chacko Jacob |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilson Chacko |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacob |
| SIGNATURE | JACOB W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Milinda Banerjee’s The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s
Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 32, numéro 1, 2022, p. 1-171) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Beginning/End of Diaspora: A Kernel of Time in a Mystical Mode of Existence
This article considers the potential payoffs of the diasporic as an analytical category developed from Indian Ocean histories that are related to and distinct from various castings of the global. Historically tracing the Indian Ocean trajectories of a Sufi Muslim family from Hadhramawt in relation to changing terms of sovereignty from the late-eighteenth century through the interwar period, the contours and crises of a normative framework for col…
Being and Becoming Anticolonial
History has been difficult to dislodge from its colonial trajectory in spite of at least a half-century of post-Orientalist critique. Accordingly, a critical theory that is genuinely global in its lineaments is difficult to establish as practice without more decolonial histories of the modern world. This article thus moves on two fronts in order to meet the stated objectives of expanding the field of critical theory while tracking “untimely tradi…
For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World
Getting to the Party on Time
How does a scholar write about revolution? I was left with this question after reading three recent books relating to the Arab revolutions and uprisings that began in late 2010 and, by some accounts, continue into the present. These works are similar in being inquiries into the gendered and sexualized conditions of and for revolutionary politics. Superficial likenesses aside—all focus on gender in Egypt—Marwan M. Kraidy’s Naked Blogger of Cairo, …
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt, written by Omnia El Shakry
Adam Mestyan. Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt
In 1829, Sultan Mahmud II issued a clothing law for the Ottoman Empire. It required most state officials to dress in European-style clothes and to wear the fez, rather than the venerable turban—Ottoman naval officers had picked up a habit of wearing the former after returning to Istanbul from the western Mediterranean a few years prior. Historians tend to regard this move as a step in the direction of massively reorganizing and rationalizing the …
Gender, History, and Sovereignty
Gender history has a history proper to itself. This is not only to say that the study of gender as a scholarly and institutional practice is bounded by space and time, and that it has an archive of its own, but also that “gender history” as a relatively recent disciplinary innovation is properly gender history to the extent that it exists in relation to and distinct from other histories of becoming man, woman, trans, and so forth. In other words,…
Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth‐Century South India
The Middle East: Global, Postcolonial, Regional, and Queer
The dislocations associated with modernity have driven scholarly, literary, and philosophical inquiries in various directions since the 19th century: Marx's materialist critique, Ranke's historical empiricism, Baudelaire's flâneur , Simmel's studies of urban anomie and alienation, Durkheim and Weber's sociology, and so on into the 20th and 21st centuries, and now reflected in this issue of IJMES on queer studies. Although there are vast differenc…
Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940
Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth and a compelling critique of modern Middle Eastern historiography. Wilson Chacko Jacob describes how Egyptian men of a class akin to the cultural bourgeoisie (the effendiyya) struggled to escape from the long shadow cast by colonial depictions of the East as degenerate, feminine, and temporally behi…
For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt by Hanan Kholoussy
Book Review| July 01 2011 For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt by Hanan Kholoussy For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt, Kholoussy, Hanan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 188 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-6960-0. Wilson Chacko Jacob Wilson Chacko Jacob Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 106…
Overcoming ‘Simply Being’: Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt
This article considers the specific deployment of gender and sexuality in interwar Egypt against the general backdrop of a universalising colonial modernity, which since around the middle of the nineteenth century aimed at producing a repeatable subject everywhere. It examines the magazine Physical Culture as an artefact of that colonial modernity and as a watermark of an ineffable style of performing gender and sexuality – a culmination of nearl…
Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914
Book Review| August 01 2009 Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914 Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 Martin Thomas Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 xiii + 428 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Wilson Chacko Jacob Wilson Chacko Jacob Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 33…
Eventful Transformations: Al-Futuwwa between History and the Everyday
A special correspondent for the leading Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram wrote from Alexandria on 28 May 1936: 'One of the effects of the Al-Bosfur nightclub murder in Cairo is that its circumstances have led to an interest in the problem of 'al-futuwwat' [sing., al-futuwwa] and how much power and influence (al-sat ̇wa) they have in the capital and in other Egyptian cities.' The murder referred to was that of a popular singer and dancer, Imtithal Fawz…
The Masculine Subject of Colonialism: The Egyptian Loss of the Sudan
This chapter represents a larger project that attempts to think masculinity and colonialism together as historically diverse and contested terrains while simultaneously being attentive to the possibility of shared epistemologies and modalities in posing the problem of the modern subject.' I argue that modernity was a global phenomenon intimately linked to colonization, which relied on similar yet different logics of producing and governing subjec…
Overcoming ‘Simply Being’: Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt
This article considers the specific deployment of gender and sexuality in interwar Egypt against the general backdrop of a universalising colonial modernity, which since around the middle of the nineteenth century aimed at producing a repeatable subject everywhere. It examines the magazine Physical Culture as an artefact of that colonial modernity and as a watermark of an ineffable style of performing gender and sexuality – a culmination of nearl…
Eventful Transformations: Al-Futuwwa between History and the Everyday
A special correspondent for the leading Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram wrote from Alexandria on 28 May 1936: 'One of the effects of the Al-Bosfur nightclub murder in Cairo is that its circumstances have led to an interest in the problem of 'al-futuwwat' [sing., al-futuwwa] and how much power and influence (al-sat ̇wa) they have in the capital and in other Egyptian cities.' The murder referred to was that of a popular singer and dancer, Imtithal Fawz…
Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth‐Century South India
The Middle East: Global, Postcolonial, Regional, and Queer
The dislocations associated with modernity have driven scholarly, literary, and philosophical inquiries in various directions since the 19th century: Marx's materialist critique, Ranke's historical empiricism, Baudelaire's flâneur , Simmel's studies of urban anomie and alienation, Durkheim and Weber's sociology, and so on into the 20th and 21st centuries, and now reflected in this issue of IJMES on queer studies. Although there are vast differenc…
The Masculine Subject of Colonialism: The Egyptian Loss of the Sudan
This chapter represents a larger project that attempts to think masculinity and colonialism together as historically diverse and contested terrains while simultaneously being attentive to the possibility of shared epistemologies and modalities in posing the problem of the modern subject.' I argue that modernity was a global phenomenon intimately linked to colonization, which relied on similar yet different logics of producing and governing subjec…
Eventful Transformations: Al-Futuwwa between History and the Everyday
A special correspondent for the leading Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram wrote from Alexandria on 28 May 1936: 'One of the effects of the Al-Bosfur nightclub murder in Cairo is that its circumstances have led to an interest in the problem of 'al-futuwwat' [sing., al-futuwwa] and how much power and influence (al-sat ̇wa) they have in the capital and in other Egyptian cities.' The murder referred to was that of a popular singer and dancer, Imtithal Fawz…
Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914
Book Review| August 01 2009 Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914 Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914 Martin Thomas Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 xiii + 428 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Wilson Chacko Jacob Wilson Chacko Jacob Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 33…
Overcoming ‘Simply Being’: Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt
This article considers the specific deployment of gender and sexuality in interwar Egypt against the general backdrop of a universalising colonial modernity, which since around the middle of the nineteenth century aimed at producing a repeatable subject everywhere. It examines the magazine Physical Culture as an artefact of that colonial modernity and as a watermark of an ineffable style of performing gender and sexuality – a culmination of nearl…
Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940
Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth and a compelling critique of modern Middle Eastern historiography. Wilson Chacko Jacob describes how Egyptian men of a class akin to the cultural bourgeoisie (the effendiyya) struggled to escape from the long shadow cast by colonial depictions of the East as degenerate, feminine, and temporally behi…
For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt by Hanan Kholoussy
Book Review| July 01 2011 For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt by Hanan Kholoussy For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis that Made Modern Egypt, Kholoussy, Hanan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 188 pages. ISBN 978-0-8047-6960-0. Wilson Chacko Jacob Wilson Chacko Jacob Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 106…
Conversion Trouble: The Alawis of Hadhramawt, Empire, Gender and the Problem of Sovereignty in Nineteenth‐Century South India
The Middle East: Global, Postcolonial, Regional, and Queer
The dislocations associated with modernity have driven scholarly, literary, and philosophical inquiries in various directions since the 19th century: Marx's materialist critique, Ranke's historical empiricism, Baudelaire's flâneur , Simmel's studies of urban anomie and alienation, Durkheim and Weber's sociology, and so on into the 20th and 21st centuries, and now reflected in this issue of IJMES on queer studies. Although there are vast differenc…
Gender, History, and Sovereignty
Gender history has a history proper to itself. This is not only to say that the study of gender as a scholarly and institutional practice is bounded by space and time, and that it has an archive of its own, but also that “gender history” as a relatively recent disciplinary innovation is properly gender history to the extent that it exists in relation to and distinct from other histories of becoming man, woman, trans, and so forth. In other words,…
Getting to the Party on Time
How does a scholar write about revolution? I was left with this question after reading three recent books relating to the Arab revolutions and uprisings that began in late 2010 and, by some accounts, continue into the present. These works are similar in being inquiries into the gendered and sexualized conditions of and for revolutionary politics. Superficial likenesses aside—all focus on gender in Egypt—Marwan M. Kraidy’s Naked Blogger of Cairo, …
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt, written by Omnia El Shakry
Adam Mestyan. Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt
In 1829, Sultan Mahmud II issued a clothing law for the Ottoman Empire. It required most state officials to dress in European-style clothes and to wear the fez, rather than the venerable turban—Ottoman naval officers had picked up a habit of wearing the former after returning to Istanbul from the western Mediterranean a few years prior. Historians tend to regard this move as a step in the direction of massively reorganizing and rationalizing the …
For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World
Being and Becoming Anticolonial
History has been difficult to dislodge from its colonial trajectory in spite of at least a half-century of post-Orientalist critique. Accordingly, a critical theory that is genuinely global in its lineaments is difficult to establish as practice without more decolonial histories of the modern world. This article thus moves on two fronts in order to meet the stated objectives of expanding the field of critical theory while tracking “untimely tradi…
Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 32, numéro 1, 2022, p. 1-171) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Beginning/End of Diaspora: A Kernel of Time in a Mystical Mode of Existence
This article considers the potential payoffs of the diasporic as an analytical category developed from Indian Ocean histories that are related to and distinct from various castings of the global. Historically tracing the Indian Ocean trajectories of a Sufi Muslim family from Hadhramawt in relation to changing terms of sovereignty from the late-eighteenth century through the interwar period, the contours and crises of a normative framework for col…
On Milinda Banerjee’s The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s
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