Revolution, Occupation, and Love

The 2011 Year in Cultural Anthropology

Bibliographic Data

ID2280222
AuthorsC Dole (0000-0002-6845-4178, Amherst College, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume114
Issue2
Pages227-239
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01421.x
OpenAlexW2079432722
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited93

What does anthropology have to offer for making sense of the events that have come to be known as the "Arab Spring"? In this article, I use this question to organize my discussion of the prominent scholarly conversations occurring in cultural anthropology for the year 2011. The topics I consider in this review are the critical study of secularism and liberalism; affect, intimacy, and care as registers of politics and economy; space, place, and time; and indigeneity. I will suggest that last year's publications, while by no means anticipating such revolutionary transformations, do offer us a rich body of conceptual approaches and methodological innovations for productively engaging the emergent conceptual and worldly horizons being associated with the "Arab Spring."[secularism and liberalism, affect, place, indigeneity, Arab Spring

Affect · Affect (linguistics · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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