[ecrea] Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East

Publication Announcement:

Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East [Special Double Issue], Cairo Papers in Social Science, 31(3/4).
Hanan Sabea and Mark R. Westmoreland, Eds.

> From the introduction: This collection of essays builds on presentations and debates that were part of the Cairo Papers Nineteenth Annual Symposium, “Sights of Knowledge: Debates about Visual Production in the Middle East,” held in Cairo in April 2010. Since that time, Egypt has witnessed massive—yet also uncertain—transformations. The street politics of Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square, as one iconic site of such shifts, has engendered a set of visualities recognized around the world through both ‘big’ and ‘small’ media forms. By reminding us of the slippage between long-enduring, monolithic representations and fleeting potentialities for new ways of seeing, these revolutionary visualities push the questions asked at the symposium in new directions. Therefore, we have also commissioned contributions by other authors to reflect on the wide scope of visual productions and engagements with and about the Middle East. Of special significance is the opening photo essay that
 deals with the January 25 Revolution and its visual productions and effects.

The papers in this volume—both those originating at the symposium and those commissioned afterward—revolve around a set of ques- tions concerned with the knowledge produced by visual means. What is visual knowledge, and does it enable the production of a different kind of engagement with social realities? What are the assumptions that underlie recourse to the visual, and how is the visual distinct from the written as a form of engaging and producing social science knowledge? Are there ethnographic themes or sites that predominate in the production of visual research, acting inadvertently as gatekeepers for visually representing particular regions? Is the production of visual knowledge limited to social science? What are the implications of the proliferation of different sites of visual production within and outside the academy, particularly with regard to the production, circulation, and consumption of such knowledge?

Publisher Information:
http://www.aucpress.com/p-4674-cairo-papers-vol-31-no-34.aspx

Front matter (including introduction) available here:
http://www.academia.edu/2423547/Visual_Productions_of_Knowledge_Toward_a_Different_Middle_East_Special_Issue_of_Cairo_Papers_in_Social_Science_

Apologies for cross-posting.


Mark R. Westmoreland
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
The American University in Cairo
<(mrw /at/ aucegypt.edu)>


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