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Reconceptualizing Public Spheres in the Middle East and North Africa

Primary Investigator(s)

  • Seteney Shami
    Social Science Research Council
    New York, New York, United States

2003
2005

http://fellowships.ssrc.org/mena/


Description

The SSRC's Program on the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) recently completed its two grants competition supporting international collaborative research focusing on the MENA region (defined as Iran to Morocco). The competition brought together researchers in different locations to address issues related to the changing nature of public spheres in the region. The notion of "public spheres" was used in a broad sense, to cover a range of historical and contemporary aspects of the MENA region.  Topics included, but were not limited to:

  • The transformation of socio-economic conditions, state and non-state structures, political regimes and conditions of political participation.
  • The construction of citizenship and other/alternative individual and collective identities, and their impact on discourses and practices concerning self, family, community, sexuality, gender and ethnicity.
  • The emergence of sites of cultural production and consumption as well as the creation of new publics through media and information technologies.


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