{"id":18077,"date":"2018-01-16T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/?p=18077"},"modified":"2018-01-16T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:45:04","slug":"atelier-de-recherche-let-down-the-curtains-around-us-global-sex-work-biopolitics-and-modernity-in-colonial-cairo-1882-1952-29-january-2018-at-06-00-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/16\/atelier-de-recherche-let-down-the-curtains-around-us-global-sex-work-biopolitics-and-modernity-in-colonial-cairo-1882-1952-29-january-2018-at-06-00-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Atelier de recherche : \u201cLet down the curtains around us\u201d, Global sex work, biopolitics, and modernity in colonial Cairo, 1882-1952 – 29 January 2018, at 06: 00 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c Let down the curtains around us \u201d<\/h3>\n

Global sex work, biopolitics, and modernity in colonial Cairo, 1882-1952<\/h3>\n

Date : 29 January 2018, at 06: 00 PM<\/h4>\n

Abstract :\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This talk explores the social construction of transgressive sexualities in modern Egypt and, more pointedly, the making of a specifically gendered subjectivity, the prostitute\u2019<\/em>s, <\/em>as a site of modern bio-political governmentality in colonial and semi-colonial Egypt (1882-1952). By tracing the transformation of gendered economic roles and mobility in a rapidly changing urban environment as fin-de-si\u00e8cle Cairo, I will show how new biopolitical anxieties were inscribed in the body of the newly-emerging\u00a0 \u2018tragic\u2019 \u00a0urban figure of the prostitute, seemingly justifying the extension of a disciplinary regime whose rational can be most interestingly studied at the intersection between imperial and Egyptian nationalist politics. \u00a0Far from being only a metaphor \u00a0of power and its anxieties, though, sex work was also a highly diversified kind of labour women practiced out of necessity but with varying degrees of autonomy. By exploring the way in which sex workers\u2019 micro-histories and regulationist and reformist discourses intersected, it is possible to recover at least a glimpse of this agency under constraints, which, far from being marginal as often maintained, was integral to the making and remaking of colonial and local power structures.<\/p>\n

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Biography :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Francesca Biancani holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics (2012) and is Adjunct Professor of History and Institutions of the Modern Middle East at Bologna University since 2010. A social historian with a keen interest in the interplay of sex, gender, mobility and labour in the making of subaltern subjectivities in colonial and semi-colonial Egypt (1882-1952), her book on global\u00a0 sex work, biopolitics and modernity in colonial Cairo is forthcoming with IB Tauris. Among her publications, “The Hierarchy of Prostitution in Colonia Cairo at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century”, in The Meeting Place of British Middle Eastern Studies<\/em>, A.Phillips and R. Abu-Remaileh, eds. (Cambridge Scholar Press, 2009); \u201cInternational Migration and Sex Work in Early Twentieth Century Cairo,\u201d in Globalization and the Making of the Modern Middle East<\/em>, L. Kozma et al., eds, (IB Tauris, 2015), \u201cProstitution in Cairo, 1600 to Present: an Urban Overview\u201d, co-authored with Hannan Hammad\u00a0 in Prostitution in Global Cities, 1600 to Present<\/em>, E. van Neederveen Meerkerk, L. Heerma van Voss, M. Rodriguez Garcia, eds., (Brill 2017) \u201cGlobalization, Gender, and Labour in Cosmopolitan Egypt, 1860-1937,\u201d in From Slovenia to Egypt: Aleksandrinke\u2019s Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers\u2019 Migration and National Imagination<\/em>, M. Hladnik, ed. (V&R Unipress, 2015).<\/p>\n

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