Maria Frederika Malmström
Biographic Data
| ID | 74601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Frederika Malmström |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Frederika |
| FAMILY NAME | Malmström |
| SIGNATURE | MALMSTRÖM M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6420-1376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities
The epigraph explains how the call to prayer functions as a sonic reminder of a sacral community. In this article I explore how sound is also connected to activists’ masculinities and space where the soundscape of the adhan in Cairo transforms from desired sacral sound to unwanted noise atmospheres (see Eisenlohr 2018). The aim is also to understand the “subjective, ‘political’ attribute of noise” in relation to gender and belonging (Pickering an…
Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion
This article explores the ambiguity of familiar materialities and the relationships between material and affective experiences. Those flows and interactions are crucial sites for interrogating social meanings, valences, and effects of suspicion. It explores how politically active Cairenes navigate suspicious spaces, bodies, and nonliving things in the cityscape and how materiality shapes and is shaped by the emotional-aesthetic responses of indiv…
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence
This article explores the Egyptian state’s production of desired manhood and destruction of unwanted masculinities in relation to home and displacement through audio-focused analysis and a focus on sonic infrastructures. While sonic infrastructures can be used as a form of political control and violence, my work in Egypt also shows how people, through sound and sonic resistance, navigate and shape sonic landscapes of insecurity, violence and limi…
The Desire to Disappear in Order Not to Disappear: Cairene Ex-Prisoners after the 25 January Revolution
This article tells a story of the aftermath of the 'failed revolution' in Egypt through the prism of sound and gendered political prisoner bodies. It created embodied reactions among Cairene men-years after their lived prison experiences-in which depression, sorrow, stress, paranoia, rage, or painful body memories are prevalent. Affect theory shows how sonic vibrations-important stimuli within everyday experience, with a unique power to induce st…
The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt
This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society—the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after th…
Infused with Suspicion: The Transformation of the Anthropologist Body
Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay
Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt: Gender, Sexuality and the Construction of Identity
The percentage of women aged 15-49 in Egypt who have undergone the procedure of female circumcision, or genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) stands at 91%, according to the latest research carried out by UNICEF. Female circumcision has become a global political minefield with 'Western' interventions affecting Egyptian politics and social development, not least in the area of democracy and human rights. Maria Frederika Malmstrom employs an ethnograp…
Porous masculinities: Agential political bodies among male Hamas youth
Constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youths in the West Bank are discussed in this article through the prism of violence. It focuses on the constructions of uncertain masculinities in a complex interplay of violence, political Islam, suffering and loss, and the importance of analyzing the body in such processes – both as agential and as victimized – is highlighted. To be able to move away from the sensationalist Western…
The Sound of Silence in Cairo: Affects, Politics and Belonging
The production of sexual mutilation among Muslim women in Cairo
Female circumcision has become a global political minefield, with ‘Western’ interventions affecting Egyptian politics and social development, not least in the area of democracy and human rights. As younger generation of women in Egypt informed by international human rights discourse begins to question norms still upheld by the previous generation, new dilemmas and tensions emerge. In this article, I discuss the risk that international interventio…
Gender, agency, and embodiment theories in relation to space
Why (and how) is it important to query into the particular lived experiences and ‘embodied agency’ of women if we want to study urban spaces through the lens of gender? The paper discusses this overarching question in relation to recent dynamic and generative theories of gender, embodiment and agency. This theoretical approach is relevant since it is possible to analyse the singularity of lived experience, not only as a form of social interaction…
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence
This article explores the Egyptian state’s production of desired manhood and destruction of unwanted masculinities in relation to home and displacement through audio-focused analysis and a focus on sonic infrastructures. While sonic infrastructures can be used as a form of political control and violence, my work in Egypt also shows how people, through sound and sonic resistance, navigate and shape sonic landscapes of insecurity, violence and limi…
The Sound of Silence in Cairo: Affects, Politics and Belonging
The production of sexual mutilation among Muslim women in Cairo
Female circumcision has become a global political minefield, with ‘Western’ interventions affecting Egyptian politics and social development, not least in the area of democracy and human rights. As younger generation of women in Egypt informed by international human rights discourse begins to question norms still upheld by the previous generation, new dilemmas and tensions emerge. In this article, I discuss the risk that international interventio…
The Desire to Disappear in Order Not to Disappear: Cairene Ex-Prisoners after the 25 January Revolution
This article tells a story of the aftermath of the 'failed revolution' in Egypt through the prism of sound and gendered political prisoner bodies. It created embodied reactions among Cairene men-years after their lived prison experiences-in which depression, sorrow, stress, paranoia, rage, or painful body memories are prevalent. Affect theory shows how sonic vibrations-important stimuli within everyday experience, with a unique power to induce st…
Gender, agency, and embodiment theories in relation to space
Why (and how) is it important to query into the particular lived experiences and ‘embodied agency’ of women if we want to study urban spaces through the lens of gender? The paper discusses this overarching question in relation to recent dynamic and generative theories of gender, embodiment and agency. This theoretical approach is relevant since it is possible to analyse the singularity of lived experience, not only as a form of social interaction…
The production of sexual mutilation among Muslim women in Cairo
Female circumcision has become a global political minefield, with ‘Western’ interventions affecting Egyptian politics and social development, not least in the area of democracy and human rights. As younger generation of women in Egypt informed by international human rights discourse begins to question norms still upheld by the previous generation, new dilemmas and tensions emerge. In this article, I discuss the risk that international interventio…
The Sound of Silence in Cairo: Affects, Politics and Belonging
Porous masculinities: Agential political bodies among male Hamas youth
Constructions of gender, embodiment and agency among male Hamas youths in the West Bank are discussed in this article through the prism of violence. It focuses on the constructions of uncertain masculinities in a complex interplay of violence, political Islam, suffering and loss, and the importance of analyzing the body in such processes – both as agential and as victimized – is highlighted. To be able to move away from the sensationalist Western…
Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt: Gender, Sexuality and the Construction of Identity
The percentage of women aged 15-49 in Egypt who have undergone the procedure of female circumcision, or genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) stands at 91%, according to the latest research carried out by UNICEF. Female circumcision has become a global political minefield with 'Western' interventions affecting Egyptian politics and social development, not least in the area of democracy and human rights. Maria Frederika Malmstrom employs an ethnograp…
The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt
This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society—the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after th…
Infused with Suspicion: The Transformation of the Anthropologist Body
Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay
The Desire to Disappear in Order Not to Disappear: Cairene Ex-Prisoners after the 25 January Revolution
This article tells a story of the aftermath of the 'failed revolution' in Egypt through the prism of sound and gendered political prisoner bodies. It created embodied reactions among Cairene men-years after their lived prison experiences-in which depression, sorrow, stress, paranoia, rage, or painful body memories are prevalent. Affect theory shows how sonic vibrations-important stimuli within everyday experience, with a unique power to induce st…
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence
This article explores the Egyptian state’s production of desired manhood and destruction of unwanted masculinities in relation to home and displacement through audio-focused analysis and a focus on sonic infrastructures. While sonic infrastructures can be used as a form of political control and violence, my work in Egypt also shows how people, through sound and sonic resistance, navigate and shape sonic landscapes of insecurity, violence and limi…
Sacral Sound, Unbearable Noise, and Cairene Masculinities
The epigraph explains how the call to prayer functions as a sonic reminder of a sacral community. In this article I explore how sound is also connected to activists’ masculinities and space where the soundscape of the adhan in Cairo transforms from desired sacral sound to unwanted noise atmospheres (see Eisenlohr 2018). The aim is also to understand the “subjective, ‘political’ attribute of noise” in relation to gender and belonging (Pickering an…
Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion
This article explores the ambiguity of familiar materialities and the relationships between material and affective experiences. Those flows and interactions are crucial sites for interrogating social meanings, valences, and effects of suspicion. It explores how politically active Cairenes navigate suspicious spaces, bodies, and nonliving things in the cityscape and how materiality shapes and is shaped by the emotional-aesthetic responses of indiv…
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)