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The Streets Are Talking to Me - Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt - book talk

December 16, at 16 00-18 00 the author Maria F Malmström has invited four guests: Jessica Winegar, Nina Gren, Jonas Frykman, Anja Franck to talk about her book. Place: CMES Finngatan 16.

Book cover of "The streets are talking to me"
Her recently released book ‘The streets are talking to me’ focuses on the sensory aspects of the Egyptian revolution.

"This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society—the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability, The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-conscious ethnography of the space where affect, material life, violence, political crisis, and masculinities meet one another."

About the Author
Maria Frederika Malmström is Associate Professor in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University. Her first book, The Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt, approached gender, sexuality, and the construction of identity in relation to global politics.

2019-11-20