Stephen Sheehi
Biographic Data
| ID | 323156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Sheehi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheehi |
| SIGNATURE | SHEEHI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1484-7646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intimacies of Guerillas: Palestinian Liberation and the Cold War Revolutionary Image
Palestinian Mourning in Perpetual Genocide
This article explores how Arabs, particularly Palestinians, mourn and resist ongoing and reproductive genocide, where mourning acquires political, social, and affective dimensions often overlooked by non-Arabic frameworks. Challenging liberal and neoliberal psychoanalytic models of individualized mourning, it calls for an anticolonial, antiracist, queer-decolonial feminist reworking of psychoanalysis. Critically indigenizing object relations theo…
The colonial republic of psychoanalysis: How psychoanalysis polices the psychic sovereignty of “Others
This article uses a scholarly case to analyze how psychoanalytic soft power is extended to govern and regulate the “psychic sovereignty” of “non-normative” subjects, especially racialized, gendered and sexualized subjects in, from and of the Global South. In using an example from the ways psychoanalysis circulates within France (in particular within contemporary debates of what constitutes someone who is truly “French”), we consider how the “Fren…
Before Painting: Nicola Saig, Painting, and Photographic Seeing
This article hopes to excavate a history of modern painting in the Ottoman Arab world and its relationship with the practice of photography by examining the work of the Palestinian artist, Nicola Saig (Niqula Sayigh).The rise of painting in the Ottoman Arab world in the nineteenth and early twentieth century among its native bourgeoisie should not be understood as a crass derivation or mimicry of the European tradition.Nor was it only as an outgr…
What Objects Should We Carry? Identity Politics and the Logic of the Generic Left in the Era of the Pandemic
Abolitionism, Settler Colonialism and State Crime
Les attaches affectives d'un État nécrocapitaliste
Dans cet article, le « nécrocapitalisme » est considéré comme une catégorie analytique et un système social qui régit le Liban d'« après-guerre ». En tant que système, il organise psychiquement et socialement une économie politique fondée sur le sectarisme, la kleptocratie et la capture de l'État. Le nécrocapitalisme structure également une série d'attachements idéologico-affectifs qui lient les élites aux subordonnés, et l'État aux uns et aux au…
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
Camera Palæstina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums titled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shed…
The settlers' town is a strongly built town: Fanon in Palestine
This article emerges from one collaboration with Palestinian clinicians while presenting the work of Frantz Fanon to a group of training clinicians in the Maana Center of EMMS Nazareth Hospital in Nazareth (al‐Nasirah). Reading and discussing Fanon in Palestine with Palestinian clinicians and trainees elicited deepseated feelings of affirmation and validation, while also disclosing anxieties arising from colonial alienation, as Fanon would say. A…
Celia Brickman, Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind
Vaporizing white innocence: Confronting the affective-aesthetic matrix of desiring witnessing
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability
Jasbir K. Puar’s acclaimed book The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability carefully progresses, chapter by chapter, to construct a multifaceted argument that considers how disability as an individual identity is an effect (and affect) of ways neoliberalism atomizes individual relations to the state and corporate functions as well as liberal discourses of bodily, subjective, social, and economic potentiality and capacity. Debility, she sho…
Miki Kratsman and Ariella Azoulay. The Resolution of the Suspect . Cambridge, Mass: Radius Books, 2016. 216 pp
Al-Kawakibi: From Political Journalism to a Political Science of the “Liberal” Arab Muslim
This article engages al-Kawakibi’s Taba’i‘ al-istibdad (The Characteristics of Oppression) as an instance of how Nahda writing dealt with the anxieties and ambivalence inherent in Ottoman Arab modernity. The Aleppine author was a political philosopher who universalized the Arab Muslim as a political subject. The article examines how al-Kawakibi defined “oppression” and “tyranny” as political phenomena that cut across a number of social and politi…
The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910
The first history of indigenous photography in the Middle East The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem—photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of its own photographers, collectors, and p…
Empires of Vision: A Reader , edited by Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy
Enactments of otherness and searching for a third space in the Palestine-Israel matrix
The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood Edited by Dyala Hamzah
Journal Article The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood Edited by Dyala Hamzah Get access The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of SelfhoodEdited by Dyala Hamzah (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), xii + 244 pp., bibliography, index. Price HB £85.00. EAN 978–0415488341. Stephen Sheehi Stephen Sheehi University of South Carolina Search…
The Nahḍa After-Image: Or All Photography Expresses Social Relations
The social relations that a photograph emits and suppresses are not limited to those relations at the time and place of its composition but are indebted to the social relations that precede photographic image-making. The studio photographic image throughout the Ottoman Arab provinces performed discourses of bourgeois subjectivity, state power and market capitalism. Through its production, exchange, circulation and deployment, photographic portrai…
Towards a Critical Theory of al-Nahḍah: Epistemology, Ideology and Capital
This articles is an initial theoretical foray into what has become a dynamic burgeoning field—“ Nahḍah Studies”—by proposing that literary and intellectual production of the era should not be understood as generative or productive of cultural discourses, social practices or identities. Rather, al-Nahḍah al-ʿarabīyyah is the mark of a violent epistemological wrenching that was instigated by the introduction of capitalist means of production and su…
A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent is Vital to Islam and America: Anouar Majid
A Social History of Early Arab Photography or a Prolegomenon to an Archaeology of the Lebanese Imago
Please open the PDF to view the article
Modernism, Anxiety and the Ideology of Arab Vision
Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity
Research Article| August 01 2005 Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity Stephen Sheehi Stephen Sheehi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 439–449. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-439 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Sheehi; Arabic Literary…
Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity
Research Article| August 01 2005 Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity Stephen Sheehi Stephen Sheehi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 439–449. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-439 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Sheehi; Arabic Literary…
A Social History of Early Arab Photography or a Prolegomenon to an Archaeology of the Lebanese Imago
Please open the PDF to view the article
Towards a Critical Theory of al-Nahḍah: Epistemology, Ideology and Capital
This articles is an initial theoretical foray into what has become a dynamic burgeoning field—“ Nahḍah Studies”—by proposing that literary and intellectual production of the era should not be understood as generative or productive of cultural discourses, social practices or identities. Rather, al-Nahḍah al-ʿarabīyyah is the mark of a violent epistemological wrenching that was instigated by the introduction of capitalist means of production and su…
Inscribing the Arab Self: Butrus al-Bustani and Paradigms of Subjective Reform
This article attempts to understand Butrus al-Bustani's Nafir Suriyya as a foundational text in the creation of a new discourse of modern Arab subjectivity. More specifically, the study examines the epistemology that circumscribes al-Bustani's conception of the modern Syro-Lebanese Arab citizen. The article highlights the nomenclature fundamental to al-Bustani's formula for 'concord and unity' and 'love of the nation' in the wake of the inter-con…
Abolitionism, Settler Colonialism and State Crime
Enactments of otherness and searching for a third space in the Palestine-Israel matrix
The colonial republic of psychoanalysis: How psychoanalysis polices the psychic sovereignty of “Others
This article uses a scholarly case to analyze how psychoanalytic soft power is extended to govern and regulate the “psychic sovereignty” of “non-normative” subjects, especially racialized, gendered and sexualized subjects in, from and of the Global South. In using an example from the ways psychoanalysis circulates within France (in particular within contemporary debates of what constitutes someone who is truly “French”), we consider how the “Fren…
Failure, modernity, and the works of Hisham Sharabi: Towards a post‐colonial critique of Arab subjectivity
Doubleness and Duality: Jurji Zaydān's Al-Mamlūk Al-Shārid and Allegories of Becoming
Inscribing the Arab Self: Butrus al-Bustani and Paradigms of Subjective Reform
This article attempts to understand Butrus al-Bustani's Nafir Suriyya as a foundational text in the creation of a new discourse of modern Arab subjectivity. More specifically, the study examines the epistemology that circumscribes al-Bustani's conception of the modern Syro-Lebanese Arab citizen. The article highlights the nomenclature fundamental to al-Bustani's formula for 'concord and unity' and 'love of the nation' in the wake of the inter-con…
Foundations of Modern Arab Identity
Dynamic and original, this study of the formation of modern Arab identity discusses the work of pioneers of the Arab Renaissance, both renowned and forgotten - a pantheon of intellectuals, reformers, and journalists whose writing until now has been mostly untranslated. Against the backdrop of European imperialism in the Arab world, these literati planted the roots of modernity though their experiments in language, rhetoric, and literature. In bot…
Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity
Research Article| August 01 2005 Arabic Literary-Scientific Journals: Precedence for Globalization and the Creation of Modernity Stephen Sheehi Stephen Sheehi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 439–449. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-439 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Sheehi; Arabic Literary…
Modernism, Anxiety and the Ideology of Arab Vision
A Social History of Early Arab Photography or a Prolegomenon to an Archaeology of the Lebanese Imago
Please open the PDF to view the article
A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent is Vital to Islam and America: Anouar Majid
The Nahḍa After-Image: Or All Photography Expresses Social Relations
The social relations that a photograph emits and suppresses are not limited to those relations at the time and place of its composition but are indebted to the social relations that precede photographic image-making. The studio photographic image throughout the Ottoman Arab provinces performed discourses of bourgeois subjectivity, state power and market capitalism. Through its production, exchange, circulation and deployment, photographic portrai…
Towards a Critical Theory of al-Nahḍah: Epistemology, Ideology and Capital
This articles is an initial theoretical foray into what has become a dynamic burgeoning field—“ Nahḍah Studies”—by proposing that literary and intellectual production of the era should not be understood as generative or productive of cultural discourses, social practices or identities. Rather, al-Nahḍah al-ʿarabīyyah is the mark of a violent epistemological wrenching that was instigated by the introduction of capitalist means of production and su…
The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood Edited by Dyala Hamzah
Journal Article The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood Edited by Dyala Hamzah Get access The Making of the Arab Intellectual: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of SelfhoodEdited by Dyala Hamzah (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), xii + 244 pp., bibliography, index. Price HB £85.00. EAN 978–0415488341. Stephen Sheehi Stephen Sheehi University of South Carolina Search…
The Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography, 1860–1910
The first history of indigenous photography in the Middle East The birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem—photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of its own photographers, collectors, and p…
Empires of Vision: A Reader , edited by Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy
Enactments of otherness and searching for a third space in the Palestine-Israel matrix
Al-Kawakibi: From Political Journalism to a Political Science of the “Liberal” Arab Muslim
This article engages al-Kawakibi’s Taba’i‘ al-istibdad (The Characteristics of Oppression) as an instance of how Nahda writing dealt with the anxieties and ambivalence inherent in Ottoman Arab modernity. The Aleppine author was a political philosopher who universalized the Arab Muslim as a political subject. The article examines how al-Kawakibi defined “oppression” and “tyranny” as political phenomena that cut across a number of social and politi…
Miki Kratsman and Ariella Azoulay. The Resolution of the Suspect . Cambridge, Mass: Radius Books, 2016. 216 pp
The settlers' town is a strongly built town: Fanon in Palestine
This article emerges from one collaboration with Palestinian clinicians while presenting the work of Frantz Fanon to a group of training clinicians in the Maana Center of EMMS Nazareth Hospital in Nazareth (al‐Nasirah). Reading and discussing Fanon in Palestine with Palestinian clinicians and trainees elicited deepseated feelings of affirmation and validation, while also disclosing anxieties arising from colonial alienation, as Fanon would say. A…
Celia Brickman, Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind
Vaporizing white innocence: Confronting the affective-aesthetic matrix of desiring witnessing
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability
Jasbir K. Puar’s acclaimed book The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability carefully progresses, chapter by chapter, to construct a multifaceted argument that considers how disability as an individual identity is an effect (and affect) of ways neoliberalism atomizes individual relations to the state and corporate functions as well as liberal discourses of bodily, subjective, social, and economic potentiality and capacity. Debility, she sho…
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
Camera Palæstina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums titled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shed…
Les attaches affectives d'un État nécrocapitaliste
Dans cet article, le « nécrocapitalisme » est considéré comme une catégorie analytique et un système social qui régit le Liban d'« après-guerre ». En tant que système, il organise psychiquement et socialement une économie politique fondée sur le sectarisme, la kleptocratie et la capture de l'État. Le nécrocapitalisme structure également une série d'attachements idéologico-affectifs qui lient les élites aux subordonnés, et l'État aux uns et aux au…
Before Painting: Nicola Saig, Painting, and Photographic Seeing
This article hopes to excavate a history of modern painting in the Ottoman Arab world and its relationship with the practice of photography by examining the work of the Palestinian artist, Nicola Saig (Niqula Sayigh).The rise of painting in the Ottoman Arab world in the nineteenth and early twentieth century among its native bourgeoisie should not be understood as a crass derivation or mimicry of the European tradition.Nor was it only as an outgr…
What Objects Should We Carry? Identity Politics and the Logic of the Generic Left in the Era of the Pandemic
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