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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.

Contents note continued: ch. 10 Placing Political Economy in Relation to Cultural Studies: Reflections on the Case of Cinema in Saudi Arabia / Naomi Sakr -- ch. 11 The Saudi Modernity Wars According to Abdullah Al-Ghathami: A Template for the Study of Arab Culture and Media / Marwan M. Kraidy -- ch. 12 Cultural Criticism: Theory and Method / Abdullah Al-Ghathami -- ch. 13 Language as Culture: The Question of Arabic / Atef Alshaer -- ch. 14 Internationalising a Media Studies Degree in Arab Higher Education: A Case Study Arising from an Agreement Between New Zealand and Oman / Rosser Johnson.

This article explores the symbolic dimensions of emigration by enquiring into the relationship between emigration as a social phenomenon in Morocco, and Moroccan popular culture. The article critiques the discourses of unity and reconciliation inherent in analyses of Moroccan popular culture and contends that the popular in Moroccan popular culture is a pseudo-popular that speaks for the voices of the centre. This article concentrates on three taken-for-granted, non-institutionalized, popular cultural spaces in Moroccan popular culture: popular jokes, the Derb and the queue outside western embassies, and argues that emigration in Morocco is not an isolated social phenomenon, but a pervasive part of the make-up of its popular culture.

'Made up of a lucid and philosophically alert set of interlinked ethnographies, Sabry and Mansour's new book provides us with an ethically informed examination of the media encounters of Arab children in everyday contexts. Their rigorous attention to the ways in which social class intersects political events, gender and geography to inflect particular media encounters is tempered by their analysis of features of Arab children's media experience that cut across contexts.' – Shakuntala Banaji, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites – London, Casablanca and Beirut – and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content. The study moves away from a conventional definition of media towards a pluralistic interpretation, and provides key ethnographic findings that reveal how the notion of home is extended across everyday spaces that children occupy. Exploring the relationship between children and media outside of the subject-object hierarchy, it re-connects them in a horizontal mapping of affectivity and intimacy. This book will appeal to scholars specializing in children and the media, digital media, media and cultural studies, media anthropology, philosophy and Middle Eastern studies

In the face of challenges posed by a shifting digital media landscape, an array of international bodies continue to endorse public service media (PSM) as an essential component of democratisation. Yet how can PSM achieve viability in settings where models of media independence and credibility are unfamiliar or rejected by political leaders? The answer lies in a holistic approach that is neither media-centric nor defeatist about PSM's place in a landscape marked by younger generations' widespread preference for social media platforms. There are more ways of working towards PSM than are often recognized. Wide-ranging research from media NGOs and academics demonstrates the potential of diverse, incremental approaches to embedding the values and mechanisms of PSM. These are as likely to involve regulatory and licensing institutions, unions of media practitioners, audiences, advocacy groups or social media platforms as content producers themselves. This Policy Brief considers the issues, research and policy options around achieving viability for PSM. It concludes with six recommendations that are relevant to policymakers, practitioners and media studies specialists.