Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula
Focusing on the struggles of youth in the Arabian Gulf to find their place in their encounters with modernity, Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula explores how global forces are reshaping everyday cultural experiences in authoritarian societies.
A deeper understanding of Gulf youth emerges from reading about the everyday lives and struggles, opportunities, and contributions of youth who, in the process of developing their personal identities, are also incrementally transforming their societies and cultures. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, the chapters bring fresh insight into Gulf youth microcultures from the ground and invite dialogue by engaging young local and foreign academics in the discussion.
In light of the general difficulties of accessing Gulf societies, the books nuanced, richly detailed depictions of everyday life can be of interest to academic research in Middle East studies, youth sociology, political science, and anthropology, as well as to business and governmental decision-making.
Emanuela Buscemi teaches at the University of Monterrey (Mexico) after being based at the American University of Kuwait. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). Her research interests include activism, resistance, and gender politics in the Arabian Gulf and Latin America.
Ildik Kaposi is assistant professor at the Department of Mass Communication and Media of the Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Central European University, Budapest. Her work focuses on issues of democracy from the perspective of media and communication.
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Everyday Youth Cultures in the Gulf Peninsula
Changes and Challenges
Edited by Emanuela Buscemi and Ildik Kaposi
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Contents
Emanuela Buscemi and Ildik Kaposi
PART 1
Spaces of engagement and contestation
Emanuela Buscemi
Marwa Ehsan Fakih
Muneera Mohammed
PART 2
Traditions and innovations
Soha M. Alterkait
Corina Lozovan
Marion Breteau
PART 3
Sociabilities and identities
David Sancho
Ildik Kaposi
Melissa E. Langworthy
PART 4
Practices of inclusion in education
Nadia Mounajjed
Naved Bakali and Mariam Alhashmi
Magdalena Rostron and Robert Marcacci
Ildik Kaposi and Emanuela Buscemi
Emanuela Buscemi holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and teaches at the University of Monterrey (Mexico). She previously taught at the American University of Kuwait. Her research interests include alternative social movements, informal activism and resistance, identity and gender politics, performance, agency, and belonging in the Arabian Gulf and Latin America. Her work has been featured in the Journal of Middle East Womens Studies, Contemporary Social Science, About Gender-International Journal of Gender Studies, Democratization, as well as in edited volumes published by New York University Press, Routledge, and Palgrave MacMillan.
Ildik Kaposi is a social scientist whose work focuses on issues of democracy from the perspective of media and communication. She has studied the roles of the press and internet in fostering participation in emerging or transitioning democracies in post-communist Europe and the Middle East. Employing mainly qualitative methods, she specialises in in-depth explorations of the intersections of democratic principles and their interpretations in specific social, legal, political, and cultural contexts. She is assistant professor at the Department of Mass Communication and Media of the Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait, where she teaches media law.
