Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice
Cover -- Half-title -- Endorsements -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Arab Subcultures and the Paradox of Cultural Translation -- Arab subcultures: what is in the name? -- The epistemological pre-moment: translation between the experiential and conceptual -- Arab Cultural Studies continued -- The book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 Hatha al-shibl min dhak al-asad: Would-be Arab Youth Studies and the Revival of 'Subculture' -- Pseudo-presentism and the historicisation of the revolution -- 'Subculture lite' and the politics of resistance -- Subcultures: the semiotic, ideological and quotidian -- Subcultures, countercultures and the problem of cultural translation -- Conclusion -- Beyond diasporic Arab Cultural Studies: towards a double critique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Hacking Rites: Recoding the Political in Contemporary Cultural Practices -- Wither commitment? -- Hacking rites -- Cultural production as a scandalous act -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Just a Bunch of (Arab) Geeks? How a 'Techie' Elite Shaped a Digital Culture in the Arab Region and Contributed to the Making of the Arab Uprisings -- Introducing the 'Arab Techies' -- Reorienting the nexus between subcultures, class and globalisation -- How the Arab Techies developed their community and culture before 2011 -- Did the Arab Techies boost the 2011 uprisings? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Resisting 'Resistance': On Political Feeling in Arabic Rap Concerts -- Political activity: subjects and agency -- The discourse of depoliticisation: resistance and neoliberalism -- Political feeling -- Objection -- Confrontation -- Repetition -- Conclusion -- Rethinking subcultures through and after the Arab uprisings -- Notes -- Bibliography.