Geoff Harkne
Biographic Data
| ID | 201397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Harkne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Harkne |
| SIGNATURE | HARKNE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University in Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3596-3483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Popular Culture Forms
Hip‐hop denotes a mainstream subculture comprised of rap music (whose lyrics are performed by rappers or MCs), breakdancing, DJing, and graffiti art. Hip‐hop fashion and vernacular are embedded within these four elements to varying degrees. Emerging from New York City in the 1970s, hip‐hop has diffused around the world and been reconfigured to suit various contexts. Hip‐hop is among the most significant forms of popular culture of the late twenti…
Changing Qatar
Qatar is the wealthiest country in the world—and one of the fastest growing. Its current population is five times larger than it was in 2000. Photos of the Arabian Gulf micronation from the 1980s show a few modest one-story buildings. Today, Qatar’s capital, Doha, is a modern petro-boomtown whose futuristic skyline features a phalanx of space-age skyscrapers. In 2022, Qatar will be the first Arab nation to host the FIFA World Cup. To prepare, Qat…
Sports and Qatar's empowered woman narrative
Qatar is a wealthy Arabian Gulf country whose petrodollars have been spent on a series of neoliberal projects intended to boost its economy and enhance its international profile. Integral to Qatar's ambitions is an “empowered woman” narrative that situates female advancement as central to the state's agenda. Qatar has relied heavily on sports to disseminate this motif, integrating it into its national development goals, sending female athletes to…
Hijab Micropractices
The hijab, the headscarf and cloak worn by some Muslim women, is often viewed through a lens of constraint, but in this article I emphasize its flexible use by women in Qatar, a wealthy, conservative Arabian Gulf nation. As part of a neoliberal agenda, the Qatari government frequently depicts female citizens using an “empowered woman” narrative that touts increased college enrollment, workforce participation, and sports involvement as evidence of…
Professional Dissonance
This article examines the working lives of creative-class professionals in the Global South using two case studies: university educators and museum professionals employed in Qatar. A small country on the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar is an ideal site for the study of professionals in a developing yet authoritarian nation. We argue that the cultural attributes of the professorial and curatorial communities, including creativity, autonomy, and intellect…
Female Sports as Non‐Movement Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa”
Open social movements and intentional resistance can be dangerous activities in some parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), particularly for women. In this setting, female activism often takes place as non‐movements – mundane, collective actions taken by individuals rather than cohesive groups. Non‐movements for women in this region consist of commonplace activities such as working, attending college, or participating in sports. This a…
Get on the Mic: Recording Studios as Symbolic Spaces in Rap Music
Modern Traditionalism
Consanguineous marriage, or matrimony between biological relatives, is commonplace and on the rise in Qatar, an ethnically heterogeneous Middle Eastern country. Previous studies have demonstrated that modernization often reduces traditional forms of marriage, such as arranged and consanguineous matrimony. Qatar's rapid modernization, however, has coincided with increased rates of endogamy. In this article, the authors examine the social processes…
Banding Together
Gangs and gangsta rap in Chicago
Spring forward
In the wake of the Arab Spring, there has been increased interest in female athleticism in the Middle East. In part, this stems from the fact that women have participated in the uprisings in unprecedented numbers. It is also tied to larger socio-economic changes that have occurred in the Middle East, both before and after the rebellions. Based on fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the present study offers an ethnographic account of an all-female …
Out of Bounds
For the past 20 years, female athletic participation in the Middle East has been increasing. In the conservative Gulf region, female athleticism has been met with a degree of ambivalence, as questions arise over the appropriate role for women in society. While female sports have been studied in Gulf countries such as Kuwait and Bahrain, the region's burgeoning superpower, Qatar, remains underexamined. The present research fills this gap by explor…
True School
How do outsiders negotiate participation within a subculture when they are deemed inauthentic by that subculture's insiders? To explore this question, I examine the underground hip-hop scene in Chicago. The insiders are black and Latino, male rappers from the city's urban core. The outsiders are white, female, and/or suburban rappers, who want to participate in hip-hop culture, but are deemed inauthentic by insiders. I demonstrate how, through cu…
Backpackers and Gangstas
This project contains an ethnographic and interview-based study of White rappers in Chicago. The research was fueled by a single question: How do White rappers create and maintain authenticity when they are clearly inauthentic by the standards of hip-hop? Though the term authenticity is used often in sociology and other literatures, the author seeks to unpack this mechanism in search of the specific social processes at work. The author begins wit…
The Sociology of Elite Distinction
True School
How do outsiders negotiate participation within a subculture when they are deemed inauthentic by that subculture's insiders? To explore this question, I examine the underground hip-hop scene in Chicago. The insiders are black and Latino, male rappers from the city's urban core. The outsiders are white, female, and/or suburban rappers, who want to participate in hip-hop culture, but are deemed inauthentic by insiders. I demonstrate how, through cu…
Modern Traditionalism
Consanguineous marriage, or matrimony between biological relatives, is commonplace and on the rise in Qatar, an ethnically heterogeneous Middle Eastern country. Previous studies have demonstrated that modernization often reduces traditional forms of marriage, such as arranged and consanguineous matrimony. Qatar's rapid modernization, however, has coincided with increased rates of endogamy. In this article, the authors examine the social processes…
Out of Bounds
For the past 20 years, female athletic participation in the Middle East has been increasing. In the conservative Gulf region, female athleticism has been met with a degree of ambivalence, as questions arise over the appropriate role for women in society. While female sports have been studied in Gulf countries such as Kuwait and Bahrain, the region's burgeoning superpower, Qatar, remains underexamined. The present research fills this gap by explor…
Gangs and gangsta rap in Chicago
Spring forward
In the wake of the Arab Spring, there has been increased interest in female athleticism in the Middle East. In part, this stems from the fact that women have participated in the uprisings in unprecedented numbers. It is also tied to larger socio-economic changes that have occurred in the Middle East, both before and after the rebellions. Based on fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the present study offers an ethnographic account of an all-female …
Backpackers and Gangstas
This project contains an ethnographic and interview-based study of White rappers in Chicago. The research was fueled by a single question: How do White rappers create and maintain authenticity when they are clearly inauthentic by the standards of hip-hop? Though the term authenticity is used often in sociology and other literatures, the author seeks to unpack this mechanism in search of the specific social processes at work. The author begins wit…
Hijab Micropractices
The hijab, the headscarf and cloak worn by some Muslim women, is often viewed through a lens of constraint, but in this article I emphasize its flexible use by women in Qatar, a wealthy, conservative Arabian Gulf nation. As part of a neoliberal agenda, the Qatari government frequently depicts female citizens using an “empowered woman” narrative that touts increased college enrollment, workforce participation, and sports involvement as evidence of…
Female Sports as Non‐Movement Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa”
Open social movements and intentional resistance can be dangerous activities in some parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), particularly for women. In this setting, female activism often takes place as non‐movements – mundane, collective actions taken by individuals rather than cohesive groups. Non‐movements for women in this region consist of commonplace activities such as working, attending college, or participating in sports. This a…
The Sociology of Elite Distinction
Sports and Qatar's empowered woman narrative
Qatar is a wealthy Arabian Gulf country whose petrodollars have been spent on a series of neoliberal projects intended to boost its economy and enhance its international profile. Integral to Qatar's ambitions is an “empowered woman” narrative that situates female advancement as central to the state's agenda. Qatar has relied heavily on sports to disseminate this motif, integrating it into its national development goals, sending female athletes to…
Backpackers and Gangstas
This project contains an ethnographic and interview-based study of White rappers in Chicago. The research was fueled by a single question: How do White rappers create and maintain authenticity when they are clearly inauthentic by the standards of hip-hop? Though the term authenticity is used often in sociology and other literatures, the author seeks to unpack this mechanism in search of the specific social processes at work. The author begins wit…
The Sociology of Elite Distinction
Spring forward
In the wake of the Arab Spring, there has been increased interest in female athleticism in the Middle East. In part, this stems from the fact that women have participated in the uprisings in unprecedented numbers. It is also tied to larger socio-economic changes that have occurred in the Middle East, both before and after the rebellions. Based on fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the present study offers an ethnographic account of an all-female …
Out of Bounds
For the past 20 years, female athletic participation in the Middle East has been increasing. In the conservative Gulf region, female athleticism has been met with a degree of ambivalence, as questions arise over the appropriate role for women in society. While female sports have been studied in Gulf countries such as Kuwait and Bahrain, the region's burgeoning superpower, Qatar, remains underexamined. The present research fills this gap by explor…
True School
How do outsiders negotiate participation within a subculture when they are deemed inauthentic by that subculture's insiders? To explore this question, I examine the underground hip-hop scene in Chicago. The insiders are black and Latino, male rappers from the city's urban core. The outsiders are white, female, and/or suburban rappers, who want to participate in hip-hop culture, but are deemed inauthentic by insiders. I demonstrate how, through cu…
Banding Together
Gangs and gangsta rap in Chicago
Get on the Mic: Recording Studios as Symbolic Spaces in Rap Music
Modern Traditionalism
Consanguineous marriage, or matrimony between biological relatives, is commonplace and on the rise in Qatar, an ethnically heterogeneous Middle Eastern country. Previous studies have demonstrated that modernization often reduces traditional forms of marriage, such as arranged and consanguineous matrimony. Qatar's rapid modernization, however, has coincided with increased rates of endogamy. In this article, the authors examine the social processes…
Female Sports as Non‐Movement Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa”
Open social movements and intentional resistance can be dangerous activities in some parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), particularly for women. In this setting, female activism often takes place as non‐movements – mundane, collective actions taken by individuals rather than cohesive groups. Non‐movements for women in this region consist of commonplace activities such as working, attending college, or participating in sports. This a…
Professional Dissonance
This article examines the working lives of creative-class professionals in the Global South using two case studies: university educators and museum professionals employed in Qatar. A small country on the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar is an ideal site for the study of professionals in a developing yet authoritarian nation. We argue that the cultural attributes of the professorial and curatorial communities, including creativity, autonomy, and intellect…
Sports and Qatar's empowered woman narrative
Qatar is a wealthy Arabian Gulf country whose petrodollars have been spent on a series of neoliberal projects intended to boost its economy and enhance its international profile. Integral to Qatar's ambitions is an “empowered woman” narrative that situates female advancement as central to the state's agenda. Qatar has relied heavily on sports to disseminate this motif, integrating it into its national development goals, sending female athletes to…
Hijab Micropractices
The hijab, the headscarf and cloak worn by some Muslim women, is often viewed through a lens of constraint, but in this article I emphasize its flexible use by women in Qatar, a wealthy, conservative Arabian Gulf nation. As part of a neoliberal agenda, the Qatari government frequently depicts female citizens using an “empowered woman” narrative that touts increased college enrollment, workforce participation, and sports involvement as evidence of…
Changing Qatar
Qatar is the wealthiest country in the world—and one of the fastest growing. Its current population is five times larger than it was in 2000. Photos of the Arabian Gulf micronation from the 1980s show a few modest one-story buildings. Today, Qatar’s capital, Doha, is a modern petro-boomtown whose futuristic skyline features a phalanx of space-age skyscrapers. In 2022, Qatar will be the first Arab nation to host the FIFA World Cup. To prepare, Qat…
Popular Culture Forms
Hip‐hop denotes a mainstream subculture comprised of rap music (whose lyrics are performed by rappers or MCs), breakdancing, DJing, and graffiti art. Hip‐hop fashion and vernacular are embedded within these four elements to varying degrees. Emerging from New York City in the 1970s, hip‐hop has diffused around the world and been reconfigured to suit various contexts. Hip‐hop is among the most significant forms of popular culture of the late twenti…
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