Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice

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What is 'Arab' about Arab subcultures This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural groups and practices, including film, graffiti, music, live art performances, Arab techies and youth cultures. Contributors tackle a number of questions including: How is the study of Arab subcultures to be theorised How are we to analyse such creative processes in a new worldliness characterised by trans-temporality and trans-subjectivity Arab Subcultures effectively opens up a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue about Arab subcultures with different fields of enquiry, including anthropology, philosophy, art criticism and cultural studies, at the heart of which lies the key intellectual task of re-imagining the uneasy relation between aesthetics and politics in the age of revolutions.

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Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster. He is author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (2010) and editor of Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field (2012), both from I.B.Tauris. He is also co-founder and co-Editor of The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.Layal Ftouni is a writer, research candidate and visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster and SOAS, University of London. Her publications include 'Rethinking Gender Studies: Towards an Arab Feminist Epistemology' in Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field.