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‘This book shatters preconceptions about Muslim culture as deftly as do the comic performers it describes. Claire Pamment has written a landmark study of Pakistani comedians proving that the bhānd tradition of popular comedy deserves the appreciation and respect granted to Italian Commedia dell'Arte, English Music Hall, and American Vaudeville. Pamment's rich descriptions and penetrating analysis brings these brilliant clowns to life as virtuoso chroniclers of absurdity, past and present.’ – Ron Jenkins, author of Subversive Laughter: The Liberating Power of Comedy ‘Pamment makes an invaluable contribution to South Asian theatre and performance history and to an understanding of the politics of high and low culture.’ – Nandi Bhatia, University of Western Ontario, Canada ‘Defying closure and familiar binaries, this book, like the bhānd tradition itself, celebrates the fluid play between Hinduism and Sufism, royal courts and the public bazaar, the centre and the margin, the traditional and the contemporary. Pamment’s erudite scholarship is paired with an abiding appreciation for the artfulness and values of the licensed fools it describes. This is a superb addition to our all too limited knowledge of this lively tradition and its legacy, and a wonderful antidote to the now frequently conveyed impression of Islamic cultures as inherently inimical to humour.’ – John Emigh, Brown University, USA This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhānd which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings. With irreverent repartee, genealogical prowess, a topsy-turvy play with hierarchies and shape shifting, the low-status bhānd jostles space in otherwise rigid class and caste hierarchies. Tracing these negotiations in both historical and contemporary sites, the author unfolds a dynamic performance mode that travels from the Sanskrit jester and Sufi wise fool, into Muslim royal courts and households, weddings, contemporary carnivalesque and erotic popular Punjabi theatre and satellite television news. Through original historical and ethnographic research, this book brings to life hitherto unexplored territories of Pakistani popular culture and Indo-Muslim performance histories.

Culture --- Ethnology --- Theater --- Performing arts. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Performing Arts. --- Theatre History. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Asian Culture. --- Study and teaching. --- Asia. --- Middle East. --- History. --- Performing arts --- Comedy. --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Show business --- Drama --- Wit and humor --- Arts --- Performance art --- Theater-History. --- Ethnology-Middle East . --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Comedy Studies. --- Theater—History. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Popular culture

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This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are embedded within the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of second generation Iranian Americans. Donya Alinejad unpacks contemporary diasporic belonging through her discussion of the digital mediation of race, memory, and long-distance engagement in the historic Iranian Green Movement. The book argues that web media practices have become integral to Iranian American identity formation for this generation, and introduces the notion of second-generation “digital styles” to explain how specific web applications afford new stylings of diaspora culture.

Social sciences. --- Ethnology --- Communication. --- Mass media. --- Social sciences in mass media. --- Ethnicity. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Social Sciences. --- Ethnicity Studies. --- Migration. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Media Sociology. --- Media and Communication. --- Middle East. --- Internet --- Social aspects. --- United States --- Immigration --- Ethnology-Middle East . --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization

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This edited volume addresses various aspects of social and political development in Turkey and the latter’s role within a global context. Paradigmatically and theoretically, it is situated in the realm of communication and/for social change. The chapters thread together to present a fresh and innovative study that explores an array of issues related to the Gezi protests and their aftermath by scholars and activists from Scandinavia, Turkey and India. Through its thorough analysis of the government’s repressive policy and the communication strategies of resistance, during the protests as well as in the dramatic on-going aftermath, the volume has wide international and interdisciplinary appeal, suitable for those with an interest in globalization, communication and media, politics, and social change. .

Democracy --- Protest movements --- Turkey --- Politics and government --- Social movements --- Ethnology-Middle East . --- Communication. --- Economic development. --- Social change. --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Development and Social Change. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Middle East—Politics and government.

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This book introduces the field of hermeneutics through a critique of military operations in Afghanistan. Following a brief survey of modern political history of the country, the authors examine the link between cultural factors and the inefficiency of nation-building operations. Additionally, the project discusses contending academic approaches to culture, and identifies shortcomings in their theoretical propositions for military operations in failed states. Ultimately, this volume contextualizes the evolution of hermeneutical thinking and the benefits it provides in assessing the transformation of culture through military intervention. .

Political science. --- Ethnology --- International relations. --- Politics and war. --- Ethics. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Military and Defence Studies. --- Moral Philosophy. --- International Relations. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Political Science. --- Middle East. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- War --- War and politics --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Political aspects --- Ethnology-Middle East . --- Philosophy --- Values --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Since 2001

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This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for ‘the social life of memory,’ the introduction discusses a particular research field of memory studies, elaborating an approach to memory in terms of social production and engagement. The Arab Spring is evoked to draw attention to new rifts within and between history and remembrance in the regions of North Africa and the Middle East. As authoritarian forms of governance are challenged, official panoramic narratives are confronted with a multiplicity of memories of violent pasts. The eight chapters trace personal and public inventories of violence, trauma, and testimony, addressing memory in cinema, in newspapers and periodicals, as an experience of public environments, through transnational and diasporic mediums, and amongst younger generations.

Collective memory --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Cultural heritage. --- Ethnology-Middle East . --- Middle East-Politics and governm. --- Historiography. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- Middle Eastern Politics. --- Memory Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Middle East—Politics and government. --- Culture—Study and teaching.