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Record Nr.

UNISA996308796403316

Titolo

Situating globalization : views from Egypt / / Cynthia Nelson, Shahnaz Rouse, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : Transcript, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

3-8394-0061-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362)

Collana

Globaler lokaler Islam

Classificazione

MS 1250

Disciplina

338.962

Soggetti

Globalization - Social aspects

Egypt Social conditions 1952-1970

Egypt Economic conditions 1981-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Preface    7  Prologue    9  Globalization, Islam and the Indigenization of Knowledge    15  The Islamization of Knowledge between Particularism and Globalization: Malaysia and Egypt    53  Gendering Globalization: Alternative Languages of Modernity    97  Struggling and Surviving: The Trajectory of Sheikh Moubarak Abdu Fadl. A Historical Figure of the Egyptian Left    159  Al-Daght: Pressures of Modern Life in Cairo    203  Creating Bodies, Organizing Selves: Planning the Family in Egypt    231  Death of a Midwife    255  Problematizing Marriage: Minding My Manners in My Husband's Community    283  A Tale of Two Contracts: Towards a Situated Understanding of "Women Interests" in Egypt    301  "We Are Not Feminists!" Egyptian Women Activists on Feminism    337  The Contributors    359

Sommario/riassunto

The range of perspectives and original materials dealt with by each author highlights the renewed urgency of the struggle for cultural autonomy and voice within the context of globalization. In other words, each paper explores how the various processes at both the local and global level intersect to create new discourses and debates round the »indigenization of knowledge.« If a new wind of cultural decolonization is blowing through the Arab Middle East, which is having profound



impact on the lives of men and women, then we should expect a new scholarship to emerge in order to grasp and understand it. This book is a contribution in that direction.