Cultural Encounters in the Arab World - On Media, the Modern and the Everyday

Informationen zum Autor Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory! University of Westminster. He is co-editor of the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'. Adopts an ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context. Within a relational framework, this title focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought with the 'modern' in Arab lived experience. Zusammenfassung Adopts an ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context. Within a relational framework, this title focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought with the 'modern' in Arab lived experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Content:Chapter 1: On Encountering and ModernnessChapter 2: Contemporary Arab Thought and the Struggle for AuthenticityChapter 3: Arab Popular Cultures and Everyday LifeChapter 4: The Bridge and the Queue as Spaces of EncounteringChapter 5: Modernness as Multiple Narrative-Category: Encountering the WestChapter 6: Still Searching for the Arab Present Cultural Tense: Arab Cultural StudiesChapter 7: ConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tarik Sabry
• Verlag: Tauris, I.B.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.09.2010
• EAN: 9781848853607
• ISBN: 978-1-84885-360-7
• Seiten: 240
• Abmessung: 136 mm x 214 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Library of Modern Middle East Studies; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika