<\/p>\n
Public workshop organised in cooperation between AUC and CEDEJ\/IFAO. A range of scholars will present their work on male bodies in Egypt in times of economic stress.<\/p>\n
“Making it Work: Economies of the Male Body in Egypt”<\/p>\n
Saturday, July 6, AUC Tahrir, Oriental Hall, 3-7 pm<\/p>\n
In recent decades, previously hegemonic understandings of Egyptian masculinity as primarily a matter of domination and patriarchy have been unsettled fundamentally. Whether in the context of nurturing care, material constraints of marriage, romantic desire, reproductive technologies, sexuality, or sports, ethnographers and historians have nuanced notions of Egyptian manhood and compensated for the \u2018dis-embodiment\u2019 of men found in much earlier scholarship. Aiming to push this line of thinking further, the workshop discusses economic structures impacting on and interacting with non-elite male bodies in Egypt. Our conversation departs from two ostensibly contradictory observations. First, from the \u2018marriage crisis\u2019 in the early twentieth century to the current neoliberal impasse, young Egyptian men have found themselves waiting: waiting for a job; waiting to accumulate enough financial resources to get married and start self-determined lives; waiting for something political to happen. And second, men in Egypt live under socioeconomic pressure to labor: labor under often exploitative and stressful conditions, sometimes in several jobs concurrently, for long hours that leave little time for recreation, (bodily) pleasures and social interaction.
\nWithin this nexus of stasis and stress, the aim of this workshop is to explore dynamics between these two poles in relation to social class and voluntarily as well as involuntarily investments in Egyptian male bodies. The presentations will examine how bodies are constituted and exploited through a series of historical as well as ethnographic case studies.<\/p>\n
Speakers:<\/p>\n
Mustafa Abdalla (FU Berlin): Diseased Bodies, Empowered Souls. Disease and masculinity among professional patients in Egypt<\/p>\n
Karin Ahlberg (Stockholm University): Exhausting the male body: a shock absorber between social expectations and capitalist precarity<\/p>\n
Ilka Eickhof (AUC): It’s worth it, let me work it \u2013 Gyms and the disciplining of male bodies in Cairo<\/p>\n
Mariz Kelada (Brown University): Behind the Scene\/Seen: Technical Workers’ Embodiment of the Political Economy of the Film Industry in Egypt<\/p>\n
Joseph Ben Prestel (Princeton University and FU Berlin): Suburban Productivity: The Reform of Male Bodies in Cairo\u2019s New Neighborhoods, 1890s-1930s<\/p>\n
Youssef Ramez (CUNY): A pill, a cup of tea, and a cigarette: The Male Body in Egypt in the \u2018Age of Viagra\u2019<\/p>\n
Carl Rommel (University of Helsinki): All Work and No Play? Economic pressures and bodily pleasures in contemporary Egypt<\/p>\n
Hania Sobhy (Max Planck Institute): Disciplining the Male Body: Class, Violence and Masculinity in Egyptian Schools<\/p>\n
Organisers:<\/p>\n
Ilka Eickhof and Carl Rommel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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