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In Absence of a Hero Figure and an Ideology: Understanding New Political Imaginaries and Practices among Revolutionary Youth in Egypt 缺少英雄人物与意识形态:理解埃及革命青年的新政治想象与实践
Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.9.6835
Dina El-Sharnouby
One of the challenges in analyzing youth who participated in the recent Arab uprisings relates to explaining and understanding their revolutionary practices. Adopting a leaderless and cross-ideological form of mobilization, youth during the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising managed to practice inclusion by uniting a diverse group of Egyptians. After toppling Mubarak, the revolutionary youth, however, did not present themselves as aiming to seize power, a defining feature of revolutions at least until the 1970s. To understand the meaning of these new cross-ideological and leaderless forms of mobilization, I suggest understanding youth within their time and space. Drawing on Alain Badiou and his conception of the intervallic period and the rebirth of history through the Arab revolts, this article highlights important differences among this generation in their conception of doing politics. More specifically, this paper focuses on the changed meaning of the hero figure, highlighting the importance of inclusionary politics. It will suggest that since the 2011 revolutionary event, a shift away from traditional politics based on a leader and an ideology is being contested for a more inclusionary politics as desired by the younger generation in Egypt.
分析参与最近阿拉伯起义的青年面临的挑战之一是解释和理解他们的革命实践。在埃及起义的十八天里,年轻人采取了一种无领导、跨意识形态的动员形式,通过团结不同的埃及人群体,实现了包容。然而,在推翻穆巴拉克之后,革命青年并没有表现出夺取政权的意图,这是革命的一个决定性特征,至少直到20世纪70年代。为了理解这些新的跨意识形态和无领导动员形式的意义,我建议在青年的时间和空间内理解他们。本文借鉴了阿兰·巴迪乌及其关于间歇期和阿拉伯起义中历史重生的概念,强调了这一代人在政治观念上的重要差异。更具体地说,本文关注英雄人物意义的变化,强调包容性政治的重要性。这表明,自2011年革命事件以来,埃及年轻一代所希望的更具包容性的政治,正在与基于领导人和意识形态的传统政治相转变。
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引用次数: 7
Arab Youth: A Contained Youth? 阿拉伯青年:一个封闭的青年?
Pub Date : 2017-12-08 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.9.7218
Joerg Gertel
Young people in the Arab world increasingly have to struggle with economic hardship and difficulties to start their own lives, although the majority is better educated than ever before. The problematic labor market situation combined with weak public schemes to support young careers force large sections of young people to postpone their ambitions to marry. This period of delayed marriage is captured as ‘waithood’. I will argue that this term is misleading. Two points of critique apply: The social dimension of waiting exceeds the status of remaining inactive until something expected happens; the ever-changing present continuously generates new realities. Simultaneously uncertainties and insecurities have dramatically expanded since 2011 and further limit livelihood opportunities and future perspectives, particularly of the youth. Young people are hence becoming both, increasingly frustrated and disadvantaged the longer they “wait”, and even more dependent on parents and kin networks. This hinders them to develop their personality – they rather have to accommodate with values that are not always suitable to master the present requirements of a globalizing world. In this paper I will inquire, in how far young people of the Arab world have thus to be considered as a “contained youth”.
阿拉伯世界的年轻人越来越多地不得不与经济困难和困难作斗争来开始自己的生活,尽管大多数人比以往任何时候都受过更好的教育。有问题的劳动力市场形势,加上支持年轻职业的公共计划薄弱,迫使大部分年轻人推迟了结婚的雄心。这段延迟结婚的时期被称为“等待期”。我认为这个术语具有误导性。有两点批评适用:等待的社会维度超过了在预期发生之前保持不活跃的状态;不断变化的当下不断产生新的现实。与此同时,自2011年以来,不确定性和不安全感急剧增加,进一步限制了生计机会和未来前景,尤其是青年人。因此,年轻人变得既沮丧又处境不利,他们“等待”的时间越长,甚至更加依赖父母和亲属网络。这阻碍了他们发展个性——他们不得不适应并不总是适合掌握全球化世界当前要求的价值观。在这篇论文中,我将询问阿拉伯世界的年轻人在多大程度上被视为“封闭的年轻人”。
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引用次数: 1
Coloring Outside the Lines of the Nation. An Iconological Analysis of the Tunisian Revolution 在国家的界限之外着色。突尼斯革命的图像学分析
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6542
Joachim Ben Yakoub
The Tunisian revolution not only liberated the country of its tenacious autocratic ruler, it also impacted, in a profound way, the imagination of prevailing political subjectivities. After Ben Ali fled the country, unsettled post-colonial tensions over the delineation of these changing subjectivities re-emerged, coloring outside the lines of the nation. The present paper analyzes this contentious process of becoming through an iconological analysis of the entangled dynamics of re-imagination that the national flag underwent during the Tunisian revolution, starting from the liberation phase in December 2010, through the constitutional phase and the promulgation of the new constitution in 2014, until the inauguration of the National Flag Square in March 2017. The present iconological analysis is not only paradoxically witness to the very limitation of the power of icons to engender dignified relationalities within a given nation, but is also witness to the slow closure of the revolutionary space and the gradual blockage of revolutionary processes of subject formation. This blockage was productive for the precarious restoration of national unity and state prestige necessary for the completion of the new constitution, but less for the demands for liberty, social justice and dignity so central to the revolution.
突尼斯革命不仅解放了该国顽强的专制统治者,而且深刻地影响了对主流政治主观主义的想象。本·阿里逃离该国后,围绕这些不断变化的主观主义的描述,不稳定的后殖民紧张局势再次出现,在国家的边界之外着色。本文通过对国旗在突尼斯革命期间经历的重新想象的纠缠动态的图像学分析,分析了这一有争议的形成过程,从2010年12月的解放阶段开始,到宪法阶段和2014年新宪法的颁布,直到2017年3月国旗广场落成。目前的图像学分析不仅矛盾地证明了图像在特定国家内产生有尊严的关系的力量非常有限,而且也见证了革命空间的缓慢封闭和主体形成的革命进程的逐渐堵塞。这种封锁有助于不稳定地恢复国家统一和国家威望,这是完成新宪法所必需的,但对革命中至关重要的自由、社会正义和尊严的要求却没有那么重要。
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引用次数: 1
Explosion of Meanings: Complexities Surrounding the Multiple Meanings of Martyrdom in the Context of Turkey 意义的爆炸:土耳其语境中殉教多重意义的复杂性
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6021
Gulizar Haciyakupoglu
This article critiques the erosion in the meaning of martyrdom through the attribution of diverse connotations to the word by different parties for diverse aims in the political context of Turkey. It seeks to question the normalization, and justifications that arrive with the construction of knowledge through discourses on martyrdom and critiques the irony between beyond earthly promises of martyrdom and the earthly decision of rewarding martyrdom.
本文批评了在土耳其的政治背景下,不同政党为了不同的目的,将不同的含义归因于殉难一词,从而削弱了殉难的含义。它试图通过对殉道的论述来质疑知识建构所带来的规范性和正当性,并批评超越世俗的殉道承诺和奖励殉道的世俗决定之间的讽刺。
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引用次数: 0
Tangier from Below 来自下方的丹吉尔
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6513
Steffen Wippel
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引用次数: 0
Scott Redford: A New Approach to the Permeability of Political Symbolism in Rum Seljuk Turkey 斯科特·雷德福:土耳其鲁姆塞尔柱政治象征主义渗透的新途径
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6213
Philip Bockholt
As his work transcends what is seen as iconography, from a strictly art history perspective, the choice of Scott Redford for portrayal in this rubric may seem surprising. However, regarding the applicability of iconographical approaches to the wider domain of cultural studies, precisely his adaptation of art history methods, which integrate disparate source material in a quest for meaning, sparked the interest of this issue of META.For most scholars in the field of Islamic history, researching premodern times normally involves reading narrative sources, that is, chronicles. Despite the so-called "documentary turn" taking place in Mamluk and Ottoman Syria, scholars of the Middle East lack the vast array of archival material that is available to their colleagues working on Medieval Europe. Thus, taking into account other types of material generally neglected by historians might be useful (more in the tradition of archaeologists and art historians who do include material culture in general). This article discusses Scott Redford's approach to combining written sources, epigraphy, and archaeological findings of the Seljuks of Rum in 13th century Anatolia in order to gain more insight into the iconography of power in a remote Islamic past.
由于他的作品超越了被视为图像学的东西,从严格的艺术史角度来看,选择斯科特·雷德福来描绘这一主题可能会令人惊讶。然而,关于图像学方法在更广泛的文化研究领域的适用性,正是他对艺术史方法的改编,即整合不同的原始材料以寻求意义,引发了META这一问题的兴趣。对于伊斯兰史领域的大多数学者来说,研究前现代通常涉及阅读叙事来源,编年史。尽管马穆鲁克和奥斯曼叙利亚发生了所谓的“文献转向”,但中东学者缺乏研究中世纪欧洲的同事所能获得的大量档案材料。因此,考虑历史学家通常忽视的其他类型的材料可能是有用的(更多地是考古学家和艺术历史学家的传统,他们确实包括了一般的物质文化)。本文讨论了斯科特·雷德福将13世纪安纳托利亚鲁姆塞尔柱王朝的文字来源、金石学和考古发现相结合的方法,以深入了解遥远的伊斯兰历史中的权力图像。
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引用次数: 0
The Alide Iconography between Theological Debate and Popular Piety in Contemporary Albania 当代阿尔巴尼亚神学辩论与大众虔诚之间的阿利德肖像学
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6080
Gianfranco Bria
In this work, we analysed the intertwining of social transformations and evolution of lived religion through the kaleidoscope of Alid iconographic worship in a postsocialist context such as Albania. In this framework, the Bektashi community restored and renewed Alid iconography, at first supported by transnational Iranian and Alevi networks, in order to hold social and political legitimation within the fragmented religious field. The embodying experiences of iconographic worship could shape the cognitive perceptions and moral dispositions of believers who partly play, critically and individually, their own religiosity. Finally, the spread of the icons seems to indicate a marketization of religious piety and a surfacing of public Islam, promoted by the Bektashiyya, in order to renegotiate power relations within Albanian society.
在这项工作中,我们通过在阿尔巴尼亚等后社会主义背景下的阿里肖像崇拜的万花筒,分析了社会变革和生活宗教演变的相互交织。在这一框架下,Bektashi社区恢复并更新了Alid图像,最初由跨国伊朗和Alevi网络支持,以便在分裂的宗教领域内保持社会和政治合法性。形象崇拜的具体化经历可以塑造信徒的认知感知和道德倾向,这些信徒部分地,批判性地和个人地,扮演着他们自己的宗教信仰。最后,这些圣像的传播似乎表明,Bektashiyya推动了宗教虔诚的市场化和公共伊斯兰教的浮出水面,以便重新谈判阿尔巴尼亚社会中的权力关系。
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引用次数: 2
Coptic Commemorative Protests and Discourses of Egyptian Nationalism: A Visual Analysis 科普特纪念抗议与埃及民族主义话语——一种视觉分析
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6027
Yosra Elgendi
This paper discusses the identity constructions of the Coptic Christian minority of Egypt during conflict and in particular through the theme of commemoration of martyrdom. In the aftermath of the attacks against them on October 9, 2011, (what is known as the "Maspero Massacre") Coptic social movements resorted to performative protests to celebrate their "martyrs". This paper analyses the visual representations of two such protests and examines how different themes and symbols from different traditions were used: Coptic Christian, Pharaonic and as well as nationalist Egyptian traditions. This paper argues that through these performances members of the community aimed to reconstruct and reassert their identity in public space as well produce oppositional nationalist discourses that interplay with social conflicts. Through examining videos and photos of these performances, this paper conducts an intertextual analysis of the visual aspects of the protests in order to reveal their political meaning as well as their contradictions.
本文讨论了冲突期间埃及科普特基督教少数民族的身份建构,特别是通过纪念殉难的主题。在2011年10月9日对他们的袭击(即所谓的“马斯佩罗大屠杀”)之后,科普特社会运动诉诸表演抗议来庆祝他们的“烈士”。本文分析了两种抗议活动的视觉表现,并考察了不同传统的不同主题和符号是如何被使用的:科普特基督教,法老和民族主义的埃及传统。本文认为,通过这些表演,社区成员旨在重建和重申他们在公共空间中的身份,并产生与社会冲突相互作用的反对民族主义话语。本文通过考察这些表演的录像和照片,对抗议活动的视觉方面进行互文分析,以揭示其政治意义及其矛盾。
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Contested Images: Iconographical approaches to the MENA-region 有争议的图像:中东和北非地区的图像学方法
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6964
G. Leube, Perrine Lachenal
This special issue of META: Middle East, Topics and Arguments, engages with the methodology of iconography, an area that was originally developed in the study traditions, iconography is used to reconstruct the meaning of depictions, buildings and other material artifacts, and it does so by integrating the elements of a given representation into its broader historical and cultural context. Ideally, iconography thereby becomes a means of reconstructing both the original aims of the producer of a message, and the ways in which that message was received by its original audience.In this volume of META, we argue that this approach can and should be adapted to fields transcending the frame of art history and material culture in order to allow greater field of Social and Cultural Studies as a whole. We see iconography, or the synchronistic study of the combination of discrete elements in spatially and temporally bounded areas, as a powerful tool in reconstructing the relationship between the sender and the receiver of a message by focusing on the semiotic context, or Language of Forms (Formensprache), in which communication takes place. By focusing especially on the permeability between different repertoires, the performativity inherent in any act of social communication and the technology underlying the mobilization of semantically charged elements, we aim to explore some of the most promising dimensions in which we believe iconographical approaches can be fruitfully employed in Social and Cultural Studies.
这期《META:中东,主题和争论》特刊涉及图像学的方法论,这是一个最初在研究传统中发展起来的领域,图像学用于重建描绘、建筑和其他物质文物的意义,它通过将特定表现的元素融入其更广泛的历史和文化背景来实现这一点。理想情况下,图像学由此成为重建信息生产者的原始目标和原始受众接收信息的方式的一种手段。在META的这一卷中,我们认为这种方法可以而且应该适用于超越艺术史和物质文化框架的领域,以允许更大的社会和文化研究领域作为一个整体。我们认为,图像学,或对空间和时间有界区域中离散元素组合的同步研究,是通过关注符号语境或形式语言(Formensprache)来重建信息发送者和接收者之间关系的有力工具,在符号语境中进行交流。通过特别关注不同剧目之间的渗透性、任何社会交流行为中固有的表演性以及调动语义元素的技术,我们旨在探索一些最有希望的维度,我们相信图像学方法可以在社会和文化研究中得到有效的应用。
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Competing Iconographies in Jerusalem's Old City 耶路撒冷老城的竞争性图像
Pub Date : 2017-05-24 DOI: 10.17192/META.2017.8.6026
T. Richard
Jerusalem's Old City is at the heart of an iconographic competition between Israeli and Palestinian narratives, with the touristic audience as its target. Both on a public and private level, this iconography is aimed at strenghtening the national claims on the Old City and at entangling visitors into their narratives, to the point of vitualizing the Old City through images that assert these claims. This situation is to be understood as a phenomenon linked to diasporic tourism and transnational mobilization, creating a form of touristic militancy. On the other hand, this target audience has heavily transformed the visual culture of the Old City by blending local and global references to fit the tastes of international tourists, and to meet their expectations when they come to Jerusalem. In turn, this led to the creation of a new visual identity for the Old City, based on its conflictual situation.
耶路撒冷老城是以色列和巴勒斯坦叙事之间图像竞争的核心,旅游观众是其目标。无论是在公共还是私人层面上,这种肖像画都旨在强化国家对老城的主张,并将游客卷入他们的叙事中,通过断言这些主张的图像来美化老城。这种情况可以理解为一种与散居旅游和跨国动员有关的现象,形成了一种旅游战斗形式。另一方面,这一目标受众通过融合当地和全球参考,极大地改变了老城的视觉文化,以适应国际游客的口味,并满足他们来到耶路撒冷时的期望。反过来,这又为老城创造了一种新的视觉身份,基于其矛盾的处境。
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