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The Afterlife in the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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The Afterlife in the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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Death lies at the beginning of the Arab uprisings, and death
continues to haunt them. Most narratives about the 'Arab Spring'
begin with Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor who set
himself on fire. Egyptian protesters in turn referred to Khaled
Said, a young man from Alexandria whom the police had beaten to
death. This book places death at the centre of its engagement with
the Arab uprisings, counterrevolutions, and their aftermaths. It
examines martyrdom and commemoration as performative acts through
which death and life are infused with meaning. Conversely, it shows
how, in the making, remembering, and erasing of martyrs,
hierarchies are (re)produced and possible futures are foreclosed.
The contributors argue that critical anthropological engagement
with death, martyrdom, and afterlife is indispensable if we want to
understand the making of pasts and futures in a revolutionary
present. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology.
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