Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7984532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Frederika Malmström (0000-0002-6420-1376, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-71 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/08992363-10202402 |
| OpenAlex | W4362633789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
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 individuals and groups to the stimuli it provides. In this specific context, the distinct form of what the author calls agential ambivalence, where feelings of control apply to tactics for managing surveillance and to reckless risk-taking are key. Agential ambivalence is required to “stay alive” in Cairo. The activists the author knows still take extreme risks and sometimes even make seemingly careless decisions. Ambivalence in face of suspicion is a given, but it takes specific shapes and dynamics
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Ambivalence · Art · Cityscape · Epistemology · Feeling · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · History · Islamic Studies and History · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Faces of the State
Introducing the New Materialisms
Live and Die Like a Man
The Counterrevolution Will Be Televised
Introduction
Affect and Material Culture
The Make-Believe Space
Egypt in the Future Tense
The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture
Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Posthumanist Performativity
Révolutions et crises politiques au Maghreb et au Machrek
Porous masculinities
There will be Blood
Let Them Have Some Fun’
The military and the state in Egypt
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
The Counterterrorism War Paradigm versus International Humanitarian Law
Policing neoliberalism in Egypt
Making and unmaking masculinities in Cairo through sonic infrastructural violence
Listening to War
Creating the enemy, constructing the threat
The Autonomy of Affect
The revolution shall not pass through women's bodies
Suspicion and the Economy of Trust among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
The Desire to Disappear in Order Not to Disappear
The Battle of Muhammad Mahmoud Street in Cairo
Vibrant Matter
Afterword
Infrastructure turned suprastructure
The privilege of revolution
No longer a bargain
The political economy of movement and gesture in Cairo
Upending Infrastructure
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |