Papers by Amani Maihoub
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, 2015
The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, 2015
This paper highlights the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s thought to doing and writing ethnography... more This paper highlights the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s thought to doing and writing ethnography. It investigates the significance of thinking and practicing anthropology as dialogue. The role of the anthropologist both in the field and in the armchair is conceived within a Bakhtinian theoretical framework for authenticity. This discussion ultimately endorses the dialogical potential of anthropological work.
A central theme weaving through this paper is the sociality of art objects in an essentially evol... more A central theme weaving through this paper is the sociality of art objects in an essentially evolving, increasingly dynamic global art world. It examines a number of theoretical trends in anthropology concerning art production, perception, and circulation. Art objects are considered live social beings whose aesthetic value, significance, and emotional efficacy are subject to change in the course of their mobility through time and space. This paper looks at how artworks are incorporated into discourses of empowerment and advocacy, set against the emergence, growth, and intensification of networks of social relations between institutions and individuals, in a particular society and cross-culturally. It is argued that people's engagement with artworks is reinforced by the social parameters of transactional artistic fields of visual representation. Previous knowledge about the meaning and status of an artwork induces particular interpretations and influences the aesthetic experience. Case studies from the colonial Gold Coast and contemporary Ghana discussed here demonstrate that artistic subjectivity is entangled with aesthetic and other culture-specific ideologies within a sensorial sphere of knowledge and experience. This discussion highlights the theoretical implications of a processual relativist view of the performative life of the art object for the anthropological study of art.
Conferences by Amani Maihoub
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jess Auerbach ׀ Assistant Professor of Social Science, African Leadership Univer... more KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jess Auerbach ׀ Assistant Professor of Social Science, African Leadership University
Jeremy Gilbert ׀ Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London
Margherita Laera ׀ Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theater, School of Arts, University of Kent
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius ׀ Associate Lecturer, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Preoccupation with theories and practices of representation and othering, across the breadth of various genres and disciplines, has moved forward debates about positioning in research and modes of constructing and producing knowledge. In "Meatless Days" (1989), a vivid memoir of her girlhood in postcolonial Pakistan, Sara Suleri Goodyear deplores being regarded as an “otherness machine”—a concern Kwame Anthony Appiah (1991) shares in his famous critique of postcolonial literature, culture and critical studies. A host of scholars who tend to conflate the post-isms as such contend that postcolonial theory and praxis are embedded in Western institutions that shape the field. Aijaz Ahmad (1992) and Arif Dirlik (1994) have argued that, owing to its reliance on poststructuralist approaches, postcolonial thought excludes questions of economic and political power structures. A staunch Derridean who uses deconstruction to uncover and disrupt such inevitable hegemonic relations of power in the academy or elsewhere, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1999) has likewise dissociated herself from the postcolonial mainstream. Edward Said (1983), whose groundbreaking book "Orientalism" (1978) sets out a toolbox for colonial discourse analysis, has grown more and more dissatisfied with the untenable apolitical nature of the theoretical insights of Derrida, Foucault and others. Yet, some scholars, and Said himself, have pointed to the geocultural limitations of his theoretical model. In considering discourses of orientalism and balkanism, for instance, Maria Todorova (1997) argues that, unlike the Orient, the Balkans is a concrete entity that is peripheral, but not completely other, to Europe. Paul Gilroy has challenged the racial and ethnocentric biases inherent within British cultural studies in his first major work "There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack" (1987). His discussion of diasporic hybridity (1993), however, has been censured for being gender-neutral. In his seminal essay "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" (1990), Cornel West locates his polemic on the emergence of the new black (or African-American) cultural worker in a critical historical juncture that might be comparable to what Stuart Hall calls “the end of the innocent notion of the essential black subject” (1988). More recently, Arjun Appadurai (2006) has made the case for research as a human right—an exercise of the imagination that is intrinsic to knowledge citizenship in the era of globalization. This conference considers the theoretical and methodological conundrums researchers and practitioners in the arts, humanities, and social sciences face when encountering sites of alterity. We invite proposals that engage with the concept of alterity and subject it to a searching critique through the lenses of multiple disciplines. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Representations of alterity in film, literature, architecture, the visual and performing arts, etc.
- Alternative media, politics and creativity
- Multicultural, intercultural and transcultural communication
- Critical human geography
- Sociality and the ethics of care
- Hybrid modalities of identity and difference
- Ethnographic translations of radical alterity
The working language of the conference is English.
Individual paper presentations will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals for panels of 3 papers (90 minutes) or roundtables of 3–5 participants (60 minutes) related to the theme of the conference are welcome. We aim to integrate an ambitious range of perspectives. Proposals incorporating practice as research, or other creative work, are encouraged.
Please send an abstract (250 words) and a brief biographical note (150 words) to [email protected]. All proposals should include a title, your name(s), contact details and, if relevant, institutional affiliation(s). The deadline for submission of proposals is 31 August 2017. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent on 1 October 2017. The deadline for registration is 15 November 2017.
PLEASE NOTE that due to popular demand, the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 15 September 2017.
The Graduate Conference in Culture Studies is an annual event junior researchers at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) of UCP conceive and organize.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Amani Maihoub (CECC-UCP)
Sónia Pereira ׀ Assessoria Científica (CECC-UCP)
CONATCT
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC)
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Palma de Cima
1649-023 Lisbon
Portugal
Website: www.alterityresearchimagination.wordpress.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/170653563468620/
Alterity and the Research Imagination Network
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlterityVII/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AlterityVII
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Papers by Amani Maihoub
Conferences by Amani Maihoub
Jess Auerbach ׀ Assistant Professor of Social Science, African Leadership University
Jeremy Gilbert ׀ Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London
Margherita Laera ׀ Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theater, School of Arts, University of Kent
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius ׀ Associate Lecturer, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Preoccupation with theories and practices of representation and othering, across the breadth of various genres and disciplines, has moved forward debates about positioning in research and modes of constructing and producing knowledge. In "Meatless Days" (1989), a vivid memoir of her girlhood in postcolonial Pakistan, Sara Suleri Goodyear deplores being regarded as an “otherness machine”—a concern Kwame Anthony Appiah (1991) shares in his famous critique of postcolonial literature, culture and critical studies. A host of scholars who tend to conflate the post-isms as such contend that postcolonial theory and praxis are embedded in Western institutions that shape the field. Aijaz Ahmad (1992) and Arif Dirlik (1994) have argued that, owing to its reliance on poststructuralist approaches, postcolonial thought excludes questions of economic and political power structures. A staunch Derridean who uses deconstruction to uncover and disrupt such inevitable hegemonic relations of power in the academy or elsewhere, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1999) has likewise dissociated herself from the postcolonial mainstream. Edward Said (1983), whose groundbreaking book "Orientalism" (1978) sets out a toolbox for colonial discourse analysis, has grown more and more dissatisfied with the untenable apolitical nature of the theoretical insights of Derrida, Foucault and others. Yet, some scholars, and Said himself, have pointed to the geocultural limitations of his theoretical model. In considering discourses of orientalism and balkanism, for instance, Maria Todorova (1997) argues that, unlike the Orient, the Balkans is a concrete entity that is peripheral, but not completely other, to Europe. Paul Gilroy has challenged the racial and ethnocentric biases inherent within British cultural studies in his first major work "There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack" (1987). His discussion of diasporic hybridity (1993), however, has been censured for being gender-neutral. In his seminal essay "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" (1990), Cornel West locates his polemic on the emergence of the new black (or African-American) cultural worker in a critical historical juncture that might be comparable to what Stuart Hall calls “the end of the innocent notion of the essential black subject” (1988). More recently, Arjun Appadurai (2006) has made the case for research as a human right—an exercise of the imagination that is intrinsic to knowledge citizenship in the era of globalization. This conference considers the theoretical and methodological conundrums researchers and practitioners in the arts, humanities, and social sciences face when encountering sites of alterity. We invite proposals that engage with the concept of alterity and subject it to a searching critique through the lenses of multiple disciplines. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Representations of alterity in film, literature, architecture, the visual and performing arts, etc.
- Alternative media, politics and creativity
- Multicultural, intercultural and transcultural communication
- Critical human geography
- Sociality and the ethics of care
- Hybrid modalities of identity and difference
- Ethnographic translations of radical alterity
The working language of the conference is English.
Individual paper presentations will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals for panels of 3 papers (90 minutes) or roundtables of 3–5 participants (60 minutes) related to the theme of the conference are welcome. We aim to integrate an ambitious range of perspectives. Proposals incorporating practice as research, or other creative work, are encouraged.
Please send an abstract (250 words) and a brief biographical note (150 words) to [email protected]. All proposals should include a title, your name(s), contact details and, if relevant, institutional affiliation(s). The deadline for submission of proposals is 31 August 2017. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent on 1 October 2017. The deadline for registration is 15 November 2017.
PLEASE NOTE that due to popular demand, the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 15 September 2017.
The Graduate Conference in Culture Studies is an annual event junior researchers at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) of UCP conceive and organize.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Amani Maihoub (CECC-UCP)
Sónia Pereira ׀ Assessoria Científica (CECC-UCP)
CONATCT
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC)
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Palma de Cima
1649-023 Lisbon
Portugal
Website: www.alterityresearchimagination.wordpress.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/170653563468620/
Alterity and the Research Imagination Network
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlterityVII/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AlterityVII
Jess Auerbach ׀ Assistant Professor of Social Science, African Leadership University
Jeremy Gilbert ׀ Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London
Margherita Laera ׀ Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theater, School of Arts, University of Kent
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius ׀ Associate Lecturer, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Preoccupation with theories and practices of representation and othering, across the breadth of various genres and disciplines, has moved forward debates about positioning in research and modes of constructing and producing knowledge. In "Meatless Days" (1989), a vivid memoir of her girlhood in postcolonial Pakistan, Sara Suleri Goodyear deplores being regarded as an “otherness machine”—a concern Kwame Anthony Appiah (1991) shares in his famous critique of postcolonial literature, culture and critical studies. A host of scholars who tend to conflate the post-isms as such contend that postcolonial theory and praxis are embedded in Western institutions that shape the field. Aijaz Ahmad (1992) and Arif Dirlik (1994) have argued that, owing to its reliance on poststructuralist approaches, postcolonial thought excludes questions of economic and political power structures. A staunch Derridean who uses deconstruction to uncover and disrupt such inevitable hegemonic relations of power in the academy or elsewhere, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1999) has likewise dissociated herself from the postcolonial mainstream. Edward Said (1983), whose groundbreaking book "Orientalism" (1978) sets out a toolbox for colonial discourse analysis, has grown more and more dissatisfied with the untenable apolitical nature of the theoretical insights of Derrida, Foucault and others. Yet, some scholars, and Said himself, have pointed to the geocultural limitations of his theoretical model. In considering discourses of orientalism and balkanism, for instance, Maria Todorova (1997) argues that, unlike the Orient, the Balkans is a concrete entity that is peripheral, but not completely other, to Europe. Paul Gilroy has challenged the racial and ethnocentric biases inherent within British cultural studies in his first major work "There Ain’t no Black in the Union Jack" (1987). His discussion of diasporic hybridity (1993), however, has been censured for being gender-neutral. In his seminal essay "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" (1990), Cornel West locates his polemic on the emergence of the new black (or African-American) cultural worker in a critical historical juncture that might be comparable to what Stuart Hall calls “the end of the innocent notion of the essential black subject” (1988). More recently, Arjun Appadurai (2006) has made the case for research as a human right—an exercise of the imagination that is intrinsic to knowledge citizenship in the era of globalization. This conference considers the theoretical and methodological conundrums researchers and practitioners in the arts, humanities, and social sciences face when encountering sites of alterity. We invite proposals that engage with the concept of alterity and subject it to a searching critique through the lenses of multiple disciplines. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Representations of alterity in film, literature, architecture, the visual and performing arts, etc.
- Alternative media, politics and creativity
- Multicultural, intercultural and transcultural communication
- Critical human geography
- Sociality and the ethics of care
- Hybrid modalities of identity and difference
- Ethnographic translations of radical alterity
The working language of the conference is English.
Individual paper presentations will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Proposals for panels of 3 papers (90 minutes) or roundtables of 3–5 participants (60 minutes) related to the theme of the conference are welcome. We aim to integrate an ambitious range of perspectives. Proposals incorporating practice as research, or other creative work, are encouraged.
Please send an abstract (250 words) and a brief biographical note (150 words) to [email protected]. All proposals should include a title, your name(s), contact details and, if relevant, institutional affiliation(s). The deadline for submission of proposals is 31 August 2017. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent on 1 October 2017. The deadline for registration is 15 November 2017.
PLEASE NOTE that due to popular demand, the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 15 September 2017.
The Graduate Conference in Culture Studies is an annual event junior researchers at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) of UCP conceive and organize.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Amani Maihoub (CECC-UCP)
Sónia Pereira ׀ Assessoria Científica (CECC-UCP)
CONATCT
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura (CECC)
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Palma de Cima
1649-023 Lisbon
Portugal
Website: www.alterityresearchimagination.wordpress.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/170653563468620/
Alterity and the Research Imagination Network
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlterityVII/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AlterityVII