Middle Eastern Belongings

Diane King captures the sentiment undergirding this book by quoting Virginia Dominguez and “returning to ‘bonds of affection for people or places’” (p. 10) in the conclusion of her introduction. She sums up the book’s chapters as “hav[ing] in common attention to various ways of belonging in (and, i...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:de27ba6dd3604ad2b3c71e04fb05717b2021-12-02T17:49:36ZMiddle Eastern Belongings10.35632/ajis.v27i3.13182690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/de27ba6dd3604ad2b3c71e04fb05717b2010-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1318https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Diane King captures the sentiment undergirding this book by quoting Virginia Dominguez and “returning to ‘bonds of affection for people or places’” (p. 10) in the conclusion of her introduction. She sums up the book’s chapters as “hav[ing] in common attention to various ways of belonging in (and, in the case of the European headscarf debates, adjacent to and with reference to) the Middle East. All treat Middle Eastern collectives as sites of what Herzfeld (2005: 6) calls the ‘cultural intimacy’ of nationalism, in which particular nationalisms are composed of ‘the details of everyday life – symbolism, commensality, family and friendship’” (p. 1). Each chapter shows how “belonging” is contested and destabilized in and by imagined communities and fragile states. By addressing questions of violence, moreover, each article highlights “both belonging’s messiness and its joys” (p. 10). King’s edited volume ties together six articles and an introduction, all of which previously appeared in Identities, a peer-reviewed cultural anthropology journal published by Routledge. With the exception of the fifth article, which appeared in a separate volume, the articles were published as a special edition, also entitled “Middle Eastern Belongings.” ... Edith SzantoInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 27, Iss 3 (2010)
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Middle Eastern Belongings
description Diane King captures the sentiment undergirding this book by quoting Virginia Dominguez and “returning to ‘bonds of affection for people or places’” (p. 10) in the conclusion of her introduction. She sums up the book’s chapters as “hav[ing] in common attention to various ways of belonging in (and, in the case of the European headscarf debates, adjacent to and with reference to) the Middle East. All treat Middle Eastern collectives as sites of what Herzfeld (2005: 6) calls the ‘cultural intimacy’ of nationalism, in which particular nationalisms are composed of ‘the details of everyday life – symbolism, commensality, family and friendship’” (p. 1). Each chapter shows how “belonging” is contested and destabilized in and by imagined communities and fragile states. By addressing questions of violence, moreover, each article highlights “both belonging’s messiness and its joys” (p. 10). King’s edited volume ties together six articles and an introduction, all of which previously appeared in Identities, a peer-reviewed cultural anthropology journal published by Routledge. With the exception of the fifth article, which appeared in a separate volume, the articles were published as a special edition, also entitled “Middle Eastern Belongings.” ...
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