{"id":20676,"date":"2021-04-11T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/?p=20676"},"modified":"2021-09-13T20:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T19:58:45","slug":"research-workshop-the-wasta-as-a-social-infrastructure-in-rural-egypt-21-april-2021-at-3-pm-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/11\/research-workshop-the-wasta-as-a-social-infrastructure-in-rural-egypt-21-april-2021-at-3-pm-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Research workshop \u201d The Wasta as a Social Infrastructure in Rural Egypt\u00a0 \u201d | 21 April 2021 at 3 pm, webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atelier Recherche du CEDEJ
\n<\/strong>CEDEJ Research workshop
\n<\/strong>” The Wasta<\/em> as a Social Infrastructure in Rural Egypt ”<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

21st\u00a0<\/sup>of April 2021 at 3 pm
\n<\/strong>Zoom webinar in English<\/strong><\/p>\n

Register here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>This talk will address the everyday practices of Wasta,<\/em> or connection building as a form of \u201csocial infrastructure\u201d in rural Egypt to address how citizens access state services. Wasta,<\/em> as a social infrastructure, serves as the basis through which citizens develop channels of alliance building and communicative skills that are essential to navigating the state bureaucracy and accessing basic needed services. The talk addresses two Nile Delta villages\u2019 differing relationships to representatives of authority to understand how different speaking genres arise from and give rise to material infrastructures like homes and roads in the two villages. For example, the presence of a Omda<\/em> (village headman) versus a youth-led village council, produces different speaking genres. I argue that the two villages\u2019 differing communicative practices, serving as a channel for Wasta<\/em> initiation, are linked to their differing rural histories and connections to land. The talk will connect the social infrastructures of the materiality of communication to the physical infrastructures of the materiality of place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nada El Kouny<\/strong> received a PhD in anthropology from Rutgers University. Her dissertation investigated the role of social action, mobilization, and infrastructure in the Nile Delta governorates of Beheira and Daqahliya. Nada is currently a Research Manager at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, The American University in Cairo, focusing on Egyptian migrant workers. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Atelier Recherche du CEDEJ CEDEJ Research workshop ” The Wasta as a Social Infrastructure in Rural Egypt ” 21st\u00a0of April 2021 at 3 pm Zoom webinar in English Register here   This talk will address the everyday practices of Wasta, or connection building as a form of \u201csocial infrastructure\u201d in rural Egypt to address how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20683,"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20676\/revisions\/20683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}