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Árdís Kristín Ingvarsdóttir

Precarious masculinity among Syrian refugees in Athens, Greece

Magdalena Suerbaum

Becoming and unbecoming refugees: Syrian men’s strategies of creating distance to the refugee label

Karmele Mendoza Pérez &
Marta Morgade

A glimpse behind the “look”: The styles and physical image adopted by unaccompanied male migrant teenagers from the Maghreb

Marcia C. Inhorn

Setting the scene: Arab Masculinities: Emergent Forms and Framings

Lisa Lorraine Wynn

Egyptian masculinity and pain: The use of narcotic pain relievers to restore virility

Mari Norbakk

Revolution as masculine stories: Egyptian men’s desire for marriage

Gustavo Barbosa

Non-cockfights or love is a many splendored thing: Shatila shabab, pigeons and an ethnographer

Sandra Nasser El-Dine

Crafting romance with limited resources? Young Ammani men’s negotiations of masculinity and "true love"

Sabiha Allouche

Desiring the nation: Love, masculinity, and accidental feminism

Anne Jørgensen

Overcoming mistrusted masculinity: Contesting ethnic minority fathers’ involvement in home-school cooperation in Denmark

Bård Kårtveit

Egyptian middle class masculinity and its ‘masculine other’

Laura Ferrero

Palestinians in Israeli prisons: The coexistence of political struggle and fatherhood 

SPONSORS

We are immensely grateful to the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Middle East Centre for their generous sponsorship of this workshop, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology for dedicated support and the International Gender Studies Centre at Lady Margaret Hall.

Arab Masculinities Anthropological Reconceptions

Description of Conference
 
Convenors: Konstantina Isidoros, Soraya Tremayne, Marcia C. Inhorn, Nefissa Naguib

 

Geopolitical events such as the 2011 Arab Spring and current European ‘migrant [refugee] crisis’ have amplified dominant portrayals of ‘traditional’ Arab men from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as dangerous Muslim ‘others’. These essentialist discourses and monolithic stereotypes persist from the Orientalist legacy of veiled and disempowered ‘Arab/Muslim women’ and patriarchal ‘Arab/Muslim men’ who perpetrate war, brutality, radicalization and misogyny. Such dehumanizing caricatures render illegible the social realities of gender relations and how the lives of Arab men and women intersect. We believe this is a crucial historical moment to critically engage with these dominant discourses—and to reconceive them—based on cutting-edge scholarship on Arab masculinities being conducted by a new generation of anthropologists. This workshop brings together a ‘new wave’ of ethnographic research that is innovatively disrupting the dominant discourses and conventional approaches to gender in the Arab/Muslim world. Such a shift reflects mounting dissatisfaction with earlier anthropological and feminist work that tended to treat Arab patriarchy as timeless and taken-for-granted, thereby perpetuating hegemonic discourses of Arab manhood. We argue this is both outdated and out of step with much current gender studies research, not only in the MENA region, but in the Western academy more generally. In both cases, ‘crisis of masculinities’ discourses and the need to ‘save’ so-called disempowered Third World women are being vociferously debated. This workshop thus presents a vital opportunity to advance a new anthropological field of Arab masculinities studies, in which theoretical frameworks, ethnographic representations and methodological strategies will be reformulated. This vanguard event has a concrete agenda to re-engage MENA feminist anthropology with the anthropology of men and launch the new field of Anthropological Reconceptions of Arab Masculinities.

22 March 2017 : Middle East Centre : University of Oxford
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Arab Masculinities: Anthropological
Re-Conceptions
22 March, 2017

 

Middle East Centre

62 Woodstock Road
Oxford
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OX2 6JF

Carl Rommel

Men in time: On productivity, temporality and the moulding of male youth in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Hsain Ilahiane

“Photographier un morceau de pain”: Portraits of Moroccan Muslim men in search of dignity and fulfillment

Jamie Furniss

Al-Ustura: Batal Sha’abi or Baltagi? Class and Contested Masculinity in Egypt

Konstantina Isidoros 

Al-mulaththamun: Warrior-nomads, refugee statesmen and the refashioning of Sahrawi masculinity and male veiling in North Africa

Alice Elliot

Repeating manhood: Movement and the (un)making of men in emigrant Morocco

OUR SPEAKERS

Masculinity in Precarity: The Struggle for Economic and Political Rights

Masculinity in Domesticity: Seeking Love and Fulfillment in Family Life

Masculinity in Motion: Migrants and Refugees Seeking Asylum and Security

CONTACT US

For other questions and comments email arabmasculinities@ox.ac.uk

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Convenors: Konstantina Isidoros, Soraya Tremayne, Marcia C. Inhorn, Nefissa Naguib
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