Ugly Feelings of Greed

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4380163
AutoresSusan Macdougall (0000-0003-3633-1218, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume37
Fascículo2
Páginas74-89
Data de publicação2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/cja.2019.370206
OpenAlexW2990030989
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas25

In the eastern part of Jordan's capital, Amman, where women maintained friendships through the exchange of help and support, accusations of maslaha (opportunism) had the potential to undermine relationships. Those accusations generated ugly feelings characterized by a confusion between the things wrong with oneself that make one vulnerable to the problem of maslaha and the things wrong with Jordanian society that make maslaha so widespread. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in one East Amman neighbourhood, Tal al-Zahra, between 2011 and 2015, this article explores the ways that encounters with maslaha felt ugly, the way these ugly feelings generated critiques of contemporary Jordanian morals, and the role of these feelings in generating ethical reflection by prompting women to see themselves as separate from, and critical of, the societies in which they live

Aesthetics · Confusion · Ethnography · Feeling · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology