| ISBN13: | 9781433157615 |
| ISBN10: | 1433157616 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 212 pages |
| Size: | 18x161x230 mm |
| Weight: | 426 g |
| Language: | English |
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Negotiating Identity and Transnationalism
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This book brings MENA Communication and Critical Cultural Studies in conversation with Global and Transnational Studies. It centers Arab, Arab American, Iranian and Iranian American voices from a transnational perspective that privileges their positionalities and experiences rather than studying them from a Eurocentric lens.
At the heart of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies is a discipline that has been slowly expanding its borders around the issues of racism, sexism, ability, privilege, and oppression. As Latinx, African American, Asian Pacific American, Disability and LGBTQ Studies widen and shift the scope of Communication Studies, what often gets underplayed is the role of transnational Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Studies. It is imperative that the experiences of transnational individuals who live and move between the region and the U.S. are centered. For this reason, the goal of this book is to begin to bring Middle Eastern and North African Communication and Critical Cultural Studies in conversation with Global and Transnational Studies. We ask, how can scholars make a space for transnational MENA Studies within Communication and Cultural Studies? What are the pressing issues? Thus, at a time where Arabs, Arab Americans, Iranians, and Iranian Americans are under attack by Western media and governments, it is crucial to center their voices from a transnational perspective that privileges their positionalities and experiences rather than continue to study them from a reductive Eurocentric lens. We seek to build on existing scholarship by including essays that theorize from a Communication and Critical Cultural Studies lens. This book aims to bring together work by established and new or emerging scholars.
Sahar Khamis: Preface - Acknowledgments - Haneen Ghabra/Fatima Zahrae Chrifi A laoui: Introduction - Negotiating Whiteness: Contextual MENA Perspectives in the United States and Beyond - Marie-Odile N. Hobeika/Thomas K. Nakayama: Check-Mate: The MENA/Arab Double-Bind - Noor Ghazal Aswad: Fragmented Paradigms of Transculturality: Negotiating Equivocal Agency in Refugee Representations in Refugee Resettlement Organizations - Shereen Yousuf: Rearticulating the "Good Muslim" in Times of Trump: Islamophilia and the Muslim Woman in the Women's March Poster - Negotiating Colonialism in MENA: Rhetorics of Populism and Violence in Identity Discourse - Marouf A. Hasian, Jr.: Neo-Colonial Representations of the "Grand Mufti," Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Reterritorialization of Palestine - Asim Qureshi: Halal, Is It Meat You're Looking for? A History of Colonial Policy, Halal Meat and Violence - Matthew deTar: Representation from the Margins: Brexit, Turkey, and the Idea of "Europe" - Hana Masri: Smelling Beyond Sectarianism and Orientalism: Trash as Rhetorical Resistance in Lebanon's 2015 "You Stink" Protests - Negotiating Identity: Literacy, Visual, and Comedic Perspectives - Kelsey Waninger Minnick: The Veiled Identity: Hijabistas, Instagram and Branding in the Online Islamic Fashion Industry - Emanuela Buscemi: Bamboo and Bougainvillea: Literary Perspectives on Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Kuwait - Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager: Laughing at One Thousand and One Western Tales about the Middle Eastern Others - Negotiating Identity among Muslim, Arab and Asian Women: An Intersectional and Cultural Studies Approach - Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri: An Intersectional Approach to the Kafala System in Lebanon: Racialized, Sexualized and Exploitative Dimensions of Migrant Domestic Labor - Gordon Alley-Young: Secret Superhero in a Black Burka - Editors - Contributors.
