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Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity (Anthropology, Culture and Society) - Softcover

Buch 68 von 105: Anthropology, Culture and Society

Aly, Ramy M. K.

 
9780745333588: Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0745333583 ISBN 13: 9780745333588
Verlag: Pluto Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book is the first ethnographic exploration of gender, race and class practices amongst British born or raised Arabs in London. Ramy M.K. Aly looks critically at the idea of 'Arab-ness' and the ways in which ethnic subjects are produced, signified and recited in the city. Looking at everyday spaces, encounters and discourses, the book explores the lives of young people and some of the ways in which they ‘do’ or achieve 'Arab-ness'. Aly’s ethnography uncovers narratives of growing up in London, the codes of sociability at Shisha cafes and the sexual politics and ethnic self-portraits which make British-Arab men and women. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, Aly emphasises the need to move away from the notion of identity and towards a performative reading of race, gender and class. What emerges is a highly innovative contribution to the study of diaspora and difference in contemporary Britain.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ramy M. K. Aly is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo.

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Verlag
Pluto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0745333583
ISBN 13 
9780745333588
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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