{"id":21523,"date":"2022-04-01T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/?p=21523"},"modified":"2022-04-14T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T11:06:25","slug":"appel-a-contributions-egypte-soudan-mondes-arabes-esma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/01\/appel-a-contributions-egypte-soudan-mondes-arabes-esma\/","title":{"rendered":"Appel \u00e0 contributions EGYPTE SOUDAN MONDES ARABES (ESMA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>D\u00e9lai prolong\u00e9<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>English below &#8212;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Extended dead line<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Appel \u00e0 contributions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>EGYPTE SOUDAN MONDES ARABES (ESMA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Carl Rommel &amp; Giedr\u0117 \u0160abasevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 &#8211; Coordinateurs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Num\u00e9ro th\u00e9matique: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Les ruines de l&#8217;\u00c9tat providence : H\u00e9ritages mat\u00e9riels d&#8217;un Moyen-Orient socialiste.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ESMA invite les auteur.e.s \u00e0 soumettre des r\u00e9sum\u00e9s de 400 mots, accompagn\u00e9s de courtes biographies. Les coordinateurs et les membres du comit\u00e9 \u00e9ditorial s\u00e9lectionneront les r\u00e9sum\u00e9s et demanderont des articles de recherche complets de 8000 mots maximum (notes et r\u00e9f\u00e9rences incluses), qui seront soumis \u00e0 une \u00e9valuation par les pairs anonymis\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;autres formats, tels que des Notes de recherche (5000 mots maximum), des articles pour la rubrique Sources et mat\u00e9riaux (4000 mots maximum), ou des comptes rendus de livres peuvent \u00e9galement \u00eatre soumis. Veuillez pr\u00e9ciser dans votre r\u00e9sum\u00e9 \u00e0 quelle rubrique vous vous adressez.<\/p>\n<p>Les r\u00e9sum\u00e9s et les articles peuvent \u00eatre soumis en anglais, en arabe ou en fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nCalendrier :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9ception et s\u00e9lection des r\u00e9sum\u00e9s : Date limite le 2 mai 2022<\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9ception des articles V1 : 1er septembre 2022<\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9vision &amp; modifications (V2, V3) : Septembre-D\u00e9cembre 2022<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9dition et publication : f\u00e9vrier 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veuillez soumettre les r\u00e9sum\u00e9s directement aux \u00e9diteurs\u00a0<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:carl.rommel@antro.uu.se\">carl.rommel@antro.uu.se<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:saba@orient.cas.cz\">saba@orient.cas.cz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Argumentaire\u00a0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dans de nombreuses r\u00e9gions du monde, la seconde moiti\u00e9 du XXe si\u00e8cle a \u00e9t\u00e9 marqu\u00e9e par l&#8217;essor et la consolidation des \u00c9tats-providence. Au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord, les r\u00e9volutions nationalistes et socialistes des ann\u00e9es 1950 et 1960 ont entra\u00een\u00e9 l&#8217;expansion des bureaucraties d&#8217;\u00c9tat, conform\u00e9ment aux id\u00e9aux dominants de soci\u00e9t\u00e9s \u00e9galitaires et prosp\u00e8res. Au fil des ans, une infrastructure colossale de b\u00e2timents a vu le jour pour r\u00e9pondre aux divers besoins de ces \u00c9tats-providence, tels que des palais de la culture, des th\u00e9\u00e2tres, des centres de jeunesse, des \u00e9coles, des h\u00f4pitaux, des bureaux gouvernementaux, des syndicats, des d\u00e9p\u00f4ts de bus, des usines et des coop\u00e9ratives de consommateurs et de producteurs g\u00e9r\u00e9es par l&#8217;\u00c9tat.<\/p>\n<p>Les institutions \u00e9mergentes de l&#8217;\u00c9tat-providence ont donn\u00e9 naissance \u00e0 de nouvelles aspirations de consommation (Bier 2011), ont \u00e9tendu les proc\u00e9dures bureaucratiques, les normalisations, les pratiques de documentation (Ayubi 1980) et, plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement, ont produit un large \u00e9ventail de r\u00eaves, d&#8217;attentes et d&#8217;images qui ont red\u00e9fini le sens de l&#8217;\u00c9tat et sa relation avec le peuple (Labib 2019, Meijer 2015). Depuis le tournant n\u00e9olib\u00e9ral des ann\u00e9es 1990, nombre de ces espaces, institutions et routines ont perdu leurs objectifs d&#8217;origine et ont \u00e9t\u00e9 remani\u00e9s pour r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nouvellement \u00e9mergents de l&#8217;\u00e9conomie de march\u00e9, des partenariats public-priv\u00e9 (PPP) et de la nouvelle gestion publique. Pourtant, bien que d\u00e9sert\u00e9s et d\u00e9cr\u00e9pis, les vestiges mat\u00e9riels de l&#8217;\u00c9tat-providence sont encore pr\u00e9sents aujourd&#8217;hui, comme autant de rappels puissants d&#8217;\u00e9poques r\u00e9volues.<\/p>\n<p>Ce num\u00e9ro sp\u00e9cial vise \u00e0 explorer les s\u00e9quelles mat\u00e9rielles de l&#8217;\u00c9tat providence en \u00c9gypte, au Soudan et dans d&#8217;autres pays du Moyen-Orient et d&#8217;Afrique du Nord. Il pose la question de savoir comment les vestiges des \u00c9tats-providence qui ont exist\u00e9 &#8211; b\u00e2timents, infrastructures, institutions, documents, normes, proc\u00e9dures &#8211; ont fini par r\u00e9pondre aux nouveaux besoins d&#8217;une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de march\u00e9, aux investissements priv\u00e9s, aux actions individuelles, aux r\u00eaves, \u00e0 l&#8217;imaginaire, aux affects et aux souvenirs. S&#8217;appuyant sur la perspective d&#8217;Ann Stoler sur les \u00ab\u00a0d\u00e9bris imp\u00e9riaux\u00a0\u00bb (2008) et sur la th\u00e9orisation de Yael Navaro-Yashin de la \u00ab\u00a0ruine\u00a0\u00bb comme <em>agency<\/em> affectuelle (2009), ce num\u00e9ro invite les contributeurs \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer les vestiges des Etats-providence comme des \u00ab\u00a0ruines\u00a0\u00bb, c&#8217;est-\u00e0-dire comme des entit\u00e9s d&#8217;\u00e9poques r\u00e9volues qui ont un pouvoir d&#8217;action pour fa\u00e7onner (et \u00eatre remodel\u00e9es dans) le pr\u00e9sent. En infl\u00e9chissant la pens\u00e9e de Stoler et Navaro-Yashin dans une direction l\u00e9g\u00e8rement nouvelle, les ruines que nous consid\u00e9rons sont mat\u00e9rielles, infrastructurelles et institutionnelles : d&#8217;une part, les b\u00e2timents, les espaces publics et le tissu urbain qui sont encore debout et qui comptent ; d&#8217;autre part, les normes, les proc\u00e9dures et les pratiques qui donnent aux \u00c9tats du Moyen-Orient leurs divers \u00ab\u00a0effets\u00a0\u00bb (Mitchell 1991).<\/p>\n<p>Cette probl\u00e9matique invite \u00e0 des \u00e9tudes de cas empiriques qui abordent les questions suivantes :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dans quelles conditions les sites mat\u00e9riels et les vestiges des pass\u00e9s socialistes sont-ils laiss\u00e9s \u00e0 l&#8217;abandon ou r\u00e9affect\u00e9s pour s&#8217;adapter aux nouvelles technologies embl\u00e9matiques de l&#8217;\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0\u00c9tat intelligent\u00a0\u00bb (Ramon 2012) ?<\/li>\n<li>Comment ces ruines sont-elles appropri\u00e9es et remodel\u00e9es par des actions individuelles, collectives et gouvernementales ?<\/li>\n<li>Quels types de loisirs et d&#8217;attachements affectifs, \u00e9conomiques ou id\u00e9ologiques g\u00e9n\u00e8rent-ils ?<\/li>\n<li>Quelle est la signification des propri\u00e9t\u00e9s architecturales de ces espaces, et quels types de pratiques, de mouvements et d&#8217;affects permettent-ils ?<\/li>\n<li>Comment la mat\u00e9rialit\u00e9 et les infrastructures qui subsistent remod\u00e8lent-elles l&#8217;attachement \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00c9tat et \u00e0 ses mythologies ?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>En somme, ce num\u00e9ro sp\u00e9cial entend explorer empiriquement les h\u00e9ritages socialistes dans la r\u00e9gion en \u00e9tudiant leurs effets mat\u00e9riels dans le pr\u00e9sent. Il accueille \u00e9galement des contributions sur des \u00e9tudes historiques r\u00e9examinant l\u2019hypoth\u00e8se du tournant n\u00e9olib\u00e9ral des ann\u00e9es 1990, par exemple, en explorant les chronologies et d\u00e9veloppements de divers aspects des \u00c9tats-providence dans diff\u00e9rents pays. Alors qu&#8217;il existe des \u00e9tudes sur la fa\u00e7on dont des projets politiques h\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e8nes s\u2019imbriquent les uns dans les autres dans les domaines de l&#8217;\u00e9conomie politique (Vannetzel 2017) et de l&#8217;imaginaire historique (Salem 2019), peu d\u2019\u00e9tudes portent sur la fa\u00e7on dont le pass\u00e9 socialiste informe le pr\u00e9sent n\u00e9olib\u00e9ral au niveau infrastructurel et institutionnel. Ce num\u00e9ro se fonde sur une compr\u00e9hension du pr\u00e9sent comme \u00e9tant compos\u00e9 de diff\u00e9rentes couches de temporalit\u00e9 qui sont red\u00e9finies pour s&#8217;adapter aux besoins et aux subjectivit\u00e9s du pr\u00e9sent. Il cherche \u00e0 probl\u00e9matiser les interpr\u00e9tations courantes des changements historiques en termes de succession lin\u00e9aire d&#8217;\u00e9poques distinctes, et \u00e0 souligner au contraire la composition stratifi\u00e9e de la mat\u00e9rialit\u00e9, des temps, des vies et des mondes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>R\u00e9f\u00e9rences cit\u00e9es\u00a0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bier, Laura, 2011. <em>Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser\u2019s Egypt<\/em> (Cairo: American University Press).<\/p>\n<p>Graham, Janice E., Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, Regna Darnell. 2021 <em>The Social Life of Standards. Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement<\/em> (Chicago: Chicago University Press).<\/p>\n<p>Labib, Malak, 2019. Re-shaping the \u201cSocialist Factory\u201d in Egypt in the Late 1960s and 1970s. Blog for Transregional Research. https:\/\/trafo.hypotheses.org\/28429.<\/p>\n<p>Meijer, Roel, 2015. <em>The Quest of Modernity. Secular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-1958<\/em> (London: Routledge).<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, T. 1991. The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics. <em>American Political Science Review<\/em>, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 77-96.<\/p>\n<p>Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 2009. Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge. <em>The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/em>, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1\u201318.<\/p>\n<p>Nazih, Ayubi, 1980. <em>Bureaucracy and Politics in Contemporary Egypt<\/em> (London: Ithaca Press).<\/p>\n<p>Ramon, Gil-Garcia, J., 2012. Towards a smart State? Inter-agency collaboration, information integration, and beyond, <em>Information Polity<\/em>, Vol. 17, no. 3-4, p. 269-280.<\/p>\n<p>Salem, Sara, 2019. \u201cHaunted Histories. Nasserism and the Promises of the Past,\u201d <em>Middle East Critique<\/em>, Vol. 28, 261-277.<\/p>\n<p>Stoler, Ann L. 2008. Imperial Debris. Reflections on Ruins and Ruination. <em>Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 191\u2013219,<\/p>\n<p>Vannetzel, Marie, 2017. \u201cThe Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s \u2018Virtuous society\u2019 and State Developmentalism in Egypt: the Politics of \u2018Goodness\u2019\u201d, <em>International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de d\u00e9veloppement<\/em>, 8, 220-245.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c0 propos de la revue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Egypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA)<\/em> est une revue qui promeut la recherche empirique en sciences sociales sur l&#8217;Egypte et le Soudan contemporains, ainsi que sur d&#8217;autres pays de la r\u00e9gion Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord. Cr\u00e9\u00e9e en 1990 par le CEDEJ du Caire (Centre fran\u00e7ais d&#8217;\u00e9tudes et de documentation \u00e9conomiques, juridiques et sociales), la revue est r\u00e9cemment devenue une publication trilingue en fran\u00e7ais, anglais et arabe.<\/p>\n<p>Le titre a chang\u00e9 \u2013 de <em>Egypte Monde Arabe<\/em> \u00e0 <em>Egypte Soudan Mondes arabes<\/em> \u2013 \u00a0afin de souligner les histoires connect\u00e9es qui lient ces soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, \u00e9conomies et cultures \u00e0 travers de multiples r\u00e9seaux d&#8217;\u00e9changes et de circulations. En faisant r\u00e9f\u00e9rence aux \u00ab\u00a0mondes arabes\u00a0\u00bb au pluriel, le titre souligne \u00e9galement la pluralit\u00e9 et l&#8217;h\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e9n\u00e9it\u00e9 qui caract\u00e9risent les mondes sociaux constitutifs de la r\u00e9gion, incluant de nombreuses populations et dimensions non arabes.<\/p>\n<p>La revue a pour objectif d&#8217;am\u00e9liorer la production de connaissances sur ces soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, en soutenant la recherche sur le terrain et en faisant conna\u00eetre le travail des jeunes chercheur.e.s et des chercheur.e.s plus exp\u00e9riment\u00e9.e.s. La revue accueille des articles issus de plusieurs domaines des sciences sociales (sociologie, anthropologie, sciences politiques, g\u00e9ographie, \u00e9tudes urbaines, histoire, \u00e9conomie politique, \u00e9tudes juridiques, \u00e9tudes du d\u00e9veloppement, etc.) qui visent \u00e0 une meilleure compr\u00e9hension des enjeux et transformations sociaux et apportent de nouvelles contributions th\u00e9oriques.<\/p>\n<p>La revue est disponible en acc\u00e8s libre sur la plateforme Open Edition en acc\u00e8s complet deux ans apr\u00e8s la date de publication: https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/ema\/<\/p>\n<p>Avant cela, il existe une p\u00e9riode d\u2019embargo pendant laquelle les articles sont en acc\u00e8s limit\u00e9 sur la plateforme Cairn\u00a0: https:\/\/www.cairn.info\/revue-egypte-monde-arabe.htm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gouvernance et processus d&#8217;\u00e9valuation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La directrice du CEDEJ, Agn\u00e8s Deboulet, est la r\u00e9dactrice en chef. Le comit\u00e9 de r\u00e9daction comprend une trentaine de sp\u00e9cialistes de la r\u00e9gion de toutes nationalit\u00e9s et disciplines (anthropologues, sociologues, politologues, historiens, g\u00e9ographes&#8230;), parmi lesquels Reem Saad, Neil Ketchley, Elena Vezzadini, Barbara Casciarri, Mohamed Bakhit, Giedre Sabaseviciute, Richard Jacquemond, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Les articles sont soumis \u00e0 un processus d&#8217;\u00e9valuation anonymis\u00e9e. Cela signifie que l&#8217;identit\u00e9 des auteur.e.s est cach\u00e9e aux \u00e9valuateurs\/rices, et vice versa. Les articles sont g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement soumis \u00e0 un minimum de deux \u00e9valuteur\/rices (un membre du comit\u00e9 de r\u00e9daction, un externe) pour \u00e9valuer la qualit\u00e9 scientifique de l&#8217;article. Le comit\u00e9 de r\u00e9daction est responsable de la d\u00e9cision finale concernant l&#8217;acceptation ou le rejet des articles.<\/p>\n<p>Les membres du comit\u00e9 de r\u00e9daction ne sont pas impliqu\u00e9s dans les d\u00e9cisions concernant les articles qu&#8217;ils ont r\u00e9dig\u00e9s eux-m\u00eames ou qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9dig\u00e9s par des membres de leur famille, des coll\u00e8gues proches ou des \u00e9tudiants dont ils-elles sont les encadrant.e.s. Toute contribution de ce type est soumise aux proc\u00e9dures habituelles de la revue, l&#8217;\u00e9valuation par les pairs \u00e9tant effectu\u00e9e ind\u00e9pendamment du membre du comit\u00e9 de r\u00e9daction concern\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Les instructions compl\u00e8tes pour soumettre une contribution sont disponibles sur notre site web.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>EGYPTE SOUDAN MONDES ARABES (ESMA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Carl Rommel &amp; Giedr<\/strong><strong>\u0117<\/strong> <strong>\u0160abasevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 &#8211; Editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ruins of the Welfare State: Material Legacies of a Socialist Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ESMA invites authors to submit abstracts of 400 words and short bios. Guest editors and Editorial Board members will select the abstracts and ask for full research articles of 8,000 words maximum (notes and references included), that will be submitted to peer-review.<\/p>\n<p>Other formats, such as Research Notes (5000 words max), papers for the Sources and Materials Section (4000 words max), or Book Reviews can also be submitted. Please specify in your abstract to which section you submit.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts and papers can be submitted in English, Arabic or French.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Timeline:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Receiving &amp; selecting abstracts: Deadline May 2, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Receiving papers V1: September 1, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing &amp; Modifications (V2, V3): September-December 2022<\/p>\n<p>Editing and Publishing: February 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPlease submit abstracts directly to the editors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:carl.rommel@antro.uu.se\">carl.rommel@antro.uu.se<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:saba@orient.cas.cz\">saba@orient.cas.cz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ruins of the Welfare State: Material Legacies of a Socialist Middle East.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In many parts of the world, the second half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century was defined by the rise and consolidation of welfare states. Across the Middle East and North Africa, nationalist, and socialist revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s ushered in the expansion of state bureaucracies in line with prevailing ideals of egalitarian and prosperous societies. Over the years, a colossal infrastructure of buildings emerged to cater for the various needs of these welfare states, such as cultural palaces, theaters, youth centers, schools, hospitals, government offices, trade unions, bus depots, factories, and state-run consumer and producer cooperatives.<\/p>\n<p>The emerging welfare state institutions gave rise to new aspirations of consumption (Bier 2011), expanded bureaucratic procedures, standardizations, practices of documentation (Ayubi 1980), and more generally produced a wide range of dreams, expectations, and images that redefined the meaning of the state and its relationship with the people (Labib 2019, Meijer 2015). Since the neo-liberal turn of the 1990s, many of these spaces, institutions and routines have lost their original purposes, and they have been redesigned to fit newly emerging needs of the market economy, public private partnerships (PPP), and new public management. Yet, although deserted and in a decrepit state, material remains of the welfare state are still with us today, as forceful reminders of bygone eras.<\/p>\n<p>This special issue aims to explore the material afterlives of the welfare state in Egypt, Sudan, and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It asks how remains of welfare-states that once existed &#8211; buildings, infrastructures, institutions, documents, standards, procedures &#8211; have come to cater for newly emerging needs of a market society, private investments, individual actions, dreams, imaginaries, affect, and memories. Building on Ann Stoler\u2019s perspective on \u201cimperial debris\u201d (2008) and Yael Navaro-Yashin\u2019s theorization of the affective agency of \u201cruination\u201d (2009), the issue invites contributors to think of remains of welfare states as \u201cruins\u201d, i.e., as entities from bygone eras that have an agentive power in shaping (and being reshaped in) the present. Taking Stoler\u2019s and Navaro-Yashin\u2019s thinking in a slightly new direction, the ruins that we consider are material and infrastructural as well as institutional: on the one hand buildings, public spaces and the urban fabric that still stand and matter; on the other hand, standards, procedures, and practices that give Middle Eastern states their various \u201ceffects\u201d (Mitchell 1991).<\/p>\n<p>The issue invites empirically based case studies that probe questions such as the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under what conditions are material sites and remains of socialist pasts left to decompose or repurposed to fit new technologies emblematic of the \u201csmart state\u201d (Ramon 2012)?<\/li>\n<li>How are such ruins appropriated and reshaped by individual, collective and governmental actions?<\/li>\n<li>What types of leisure and affective, economic or ideological attachments do they generate?<\/li>\n<li>What is the significance of the architectural properties of these spaces, and what types of practices, movements, and affects do they allow?<\/li>\n<li>How do materiality and infrastructures that remain reshape the attachment to the state and its mythologies?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, the special issue intends to empirically explore socialist legacies in the region by studying its material effects in the present. It also welcomes contributions on historical studies revising the so-called turn of the 1990s, e.g., by exploring different timelines and developments of various aspects of welfare states in different countries. While studies exist on how different political projects seep into one another in the fields of political economy (Vannetzel 2017) and historical imaginaries (Salem 2019), there is a lack of understanding of how the socialist past informs the neo-liberal present on the infrastructural and institutional level. The issue is premised on an understanding of the present as composed of different layers of temporality that are redefined to fit the needs and subjectivities of the present. It seeks to problematize common-sense understandings of historical changes in terms of linear succession of distinct eras, and to instead underline the layered composition of materiality, times, lives, and worlds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cited works: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bier, Laura, 2011. <em>Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser\u2019s Egypt<\/em> (Cairo: American University Press).<\/p>\n<p>Graham, Janice E., Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, Regna Darnell. 2021 <em>The Social Life of Standards. Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement<\/em> (Chicago: Chicago University Press).<\/p>\n<p>Labib, Malak, 2019. Re-shaping the \u201cSocialist Factory\u201d in Egypt in the Late 1960s and 1970s. Blog for Transregional Research. https:\/\/trafo.hypotheses.org\/28429.<\/p>\n<p>Meijer, Roel, 2015. <em>The Quest of Modernity. Secular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-1958<\/em> (London: Routledge).<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell, T. 1991. The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics. <em>American Political Science Review<\/em>, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 77-96.<\/p>\n<p>Navaro-Yashin, Yael, 2009. Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge. <em>The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/em>, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1\u201318.<\/p>\n<p>Nazih, Ayubi, 1980. <em>Bureaucracy and Politics in Contemporary Egypt<\/em> (London: Ithaca Press).<\/p>\n<p>Ramon, Gil-Garcia, J., 2012. Towards a smart State? Inter-agency collaboration, information integration, and beyond, <em>Information Polity<\/em>, Vol. 17, no. 3-4, p. 269-280.<\/p>\n<p>Salem, Sara, 2019. \u201cHaunted Histories. Nasserism and the Promises of the Past,\u201d <em>Middle East Critique<\/em>, Vol. 28, 261-277.<\/p>\n<p>Stoler, Ann L. 2008. Imperial Debris. Reflections on Ruins and Ruination. <em>Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 191\u2013219,<\/p>\n<p>Vannetzel, Marie, 2017. \u201cThe Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s \u2018Virtuous society\u2019 and State Developmentalism in Egypt: the Politics of \u2018Goodness\u2019\u201d, <em>International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de d\u00e9veloppement<\/em>, 8, 220-245.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Egypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA)<\/em><\/strong><strong> is a journal promoting empirically grounded research in social sciences on contemporary Egypt and Sudan, as well on other countries in the MENA region.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Created in 1990 by the CEDEJ in Cairo (French Center for economic, legal and social studies and documentation), <strong>the journal has recently become a trilingual publication in French, English and Arabic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The title has been changed from <em>Egypte Monde Arabe<\/em> to <em>Egypte Soudan Mondes arabes<\/em>, in order to emphasize the connected histories that bind together these societies, economies and cultures through multiple networks of exchanges and circulations. By referring to the \u201cArab worlds\u201d in a plural form, the title also stresses the plurality and heterogeneity that characterize the social worlds constitutive of the MENA region, and which embrace many non-Arab people and features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The journal aims at enhancing the production of knowledge on these societies, supporting fieldwork research and publicizing the work of junior as well as more senior scholars<\/strong>. We invite papers from social scientific fields (sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, urban studies, history, political economy, legal studies, development studies etc.) that contribute to a better understanding of social challenges and transformations, and bring in new theoretical inputs.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal is available in Open Access on the Open Edition platform: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/ema\/\">https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/ema\/<\/a>, in full access two years after the date of publication. 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